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WELCOME TO COTTON SA ECONOMIC UPDATE - MARCH 2010 ( Updated - 2010/03/02 )
CURRENT MARKET REPORT	( 2010/03/02 - 115 KB )
According to The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), the surge in cotton prices during February was due to reduced world cotton production and rebounding mill use which are expected to lead to a major drop in world cotton stocks. The Cotlook A index (an indicator of world cotton prices) ...

COTTON SECTOR STRATEGY PLAN

In support of the President’s call for closer partnership between the public and private sectors to develop action plans to help realise this vision, South Africa’s cotton growers joined by their input suppliers, output processors and the National Department of Agriculture, developed a strategic plan for the South African Cotton Sector with the following strategic objectives.

• Growing farm output to a stable 370 000 lint bales by 2007,

• Broadening participation to enable emerging farmers to contribute on average 25% of the National cotton crop by 2007 and 35% by 2014, ...

HISTORY OF COTTON
	The word "cotton" as we know it today originates from the Arabic word "qutun". In Middle Dutch it was also known as "cotton" and with the development of Afrikaans as a spoken language it became "catoen" and eventually "katoen". Nobody knows how long cotton has been in existence. Pieces of cotton ...