Pakistan’s cotton production lags behind India’s

According to analysis by the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), in the upcoming new fiscal year, India’s cotton output is expected to reach 6.4 million tons, double that of 2004; while Pakistan is expected to only reach the country’s 2004 production Annual output is 2 million tons. The committee also analyzed and forecasted data from the world’s major cotton-producing countries from the 2003-04 fiscal year to the 2013-14 fiscal year, and believed that the cotton planting situation in the northern hemisphere in the 2013-14 fiscal year was promising; however, global cotton production may hit a record from 2011-12 of 27.8 million tonnes reduced to 26.4 million tonnes in 2012-13 and further reduced to 25 million tonnes in 2013-14.