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Cotton report with 2007/08 season overview
22 Nov '07
3 min read
During the 2006/07 marketing season, cotton output in Tanzania was projected to rise to 750,000 bales in the aftermath of two successive bumper crops of 640,000 and 700,000 bales during the 2004/05 and 2005/06 seasons respectively. However, to the contrary, cotton output during the 2006/07 season actually declined to a mere 245,000 bales, being 65% less than 700,000 bales obtained during the 2005/06 season due to a major drought hitting the major cotton growing areas.
Such drought, one of the severest droughts in recent memory, also seriously disrupted food production and electrical power generation thus prompting massive food aid and power rationing countrywide.
Overview of the 2007/08 Season:
Acreage under cotton:
During the 2006/07 growing period, 410,384 ha were sown to cotton in the Western Cotton Growing Area. Whereas the crop sown during the 2005/06 farming season experienced severe drought, that sown during the 2006/07 farming season, experienced too much rain and even flooding during the early part of the growing period between December and January.
This necessitated abandonment of some fields and late planting for the greater part of Shinyanga region where over 60 percent of Tanzania's cotton is grown.
Production:
As a result of too much rain, flooding and late planting, cotton output during the 2007/08 marketing season only reached 200,000 tons of seed cotton, a rise of only 35% over last year's crop of 130,565tons. This output still falls 47% short of the record crop of 376,591 tons of seed cotton obtained in 2005/06.
Such drought, one of the severest droughts in recent memory, also seriously disrupted food production and electrical power generation thus prompting massive food aid and power rationing countrywide.
Overview of the 2007/08 Season:
Acreage under cotton:
During the 2006/07 growing period, 410,384 ha were sown to cotton in the Western Cotton Growing Area. Whereas the crop sown during the 2005/06 farming season experienced severe drought, that sown during the 2006/07 farming season, experienced too much rain and even flooding during the early part of the growing period between December and January.
This necessitated abandonment of some fields and late planting for the greater part of Shinyanga region where over 60 percent of Tanzania's cotton is grown.
Production:
As a result of too much rain, flooding and late planting, cotton output during the 2007/08 marketing season only reached 200,000 tons of seed cotton, a rise of only 35% over last year's crop of 130,565tons. This output still falls 47% short of the record crop of 376,591 tons of seed cotton obtained in 2005/06.
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