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The US department of agriculture (USDA) had in September last year indicated that Mali will be the largest cotton producer in Africa for the 2021-2022 season, followed by Benin, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.
Mali planted a record 795,000 hectares (ha), up by 630,000 ha (382 per cent) from last year's crop, the USDA document noted.
Ivory Coast also planted a record 460,000 ha , while Benin and Burkina Faso each planted more than 600,000 ha this year.
At the end of the 2019-2020 season, Mali's cotton production totaled 700,000 tonnes, up by 6.6 per cent from 2018-2019, a global newswire reported.
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