{"id":14367,"date":"2007-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20070302-03n"},"modified":"2007-03-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T22:00:00","slug":"cotton-record-200607-production-forecast-in-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/cotton-record-200607-production-forecast-in-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton: Record 2006\/07 Production Forecast in South America"},"content":{"rendered":"

South American cotton production is forecast at a record 1.7 million tons in 2006\/07, up 28% from last season. Production is expected to increase in Brazil to 1.4 million tons (+33%) and in Argentina to 177,000 tons (+35%) but is forecast stable or down in most other South American countries.<\/b><\/p>\n

World cotton production is expected to remain stable at 25.4 million tons in 2007\/08. World cotton consumption is forecast at 26.6 million tons in 2007\/08, based on a continued but slower growth. Chinese mill use is expected to continue to drive world mill use and imports in 2007\/08. Global cotton imports are projected to increase by 7% to 9.2 million tons in 2007\/08, the second highest up to date after the record of 9.8 million tons in 2005\/06.<\/p>\n

World cotton ending stocks are forecast down by 3% to 11.6 million tons in 2006\/07 and down by 7% to 10.7 million tons in 2007\/08. Stocks are expected to decline more significantly in China (Mainland) than in the rest of the world in 2007\/08.<\/p>\n

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* Season-average Cotlook A Index (U.S. cents per pound).
** Not a projection. Average for the first seven months of 2006\/07 (August 1, 2006 to February 28, 2007).
*** The projection for 2007\/08 is based on current estimates of supply and use.<\/p>\n

The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)<\/a> is an association of 42 governments of cotton producing and consuming countries.<\/p>\n

(Cf. news of 2007-02-05<\/a>, 2007-01-08<\/a> and 2007-01-03<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South American cotton production is forecast at a record 1.7 million tons in 2006\/07, up 28% from last season. Production is expected to increase in<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14367"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}