WELCOME TO COTTON SA ECONOMIC UPDATE - JULY 2008 ( Updated - 2008/07/03 )
CURRENT MARKET REPORT	( 2008/07/03 - 134 KB )
The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) expects that the 2007/08 Cotlook A index (an indicator of world cotton lint prices) will average 73 US c/lb, up 24% from the previous season. Current supply and demand trends suggest that cotton prices will continue to increase in 2008/09. The stock ...

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, ...

COTTON SA FUNCTIONS
	Following the compulsory dissolution of the Cotton Board at the end of 1997 in terms of the Marketing of Agricultural products Act, 1996, all roleplayers in the cotton industry decided to form a company incorporated under section 21 of the Companies Act, 1973, namely COTTON SA in order to continue t ...