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The following is a list of countries by raw cotton exports. Data is for 2022, in millions of United States dollars , as reported by The International Trade Centre . Currently the top fifteen countries are listed.
Current estimates for world production are about 25 million tonnes or 110 million bales annually, accounting for 2.5% of the world's arable land. India is the world's largest producer of cotton. The United States has been the largest exporter for many years. [3] Cotton ready for harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Production of some products is highly concentrated in a few countries, China, the leading producer of wheat and ramie in 2013, produces 95% of the world's ramie fiber but only 17% of the world's wheat. Products with more evenly distributed production see more frequent changes in the ranking of the top producers.
According to a market research, China is the largest producer of cotton in the world, with a plant area of 3.0 million hectares in 2021. [8] According to the FAO statistics for 2012, cotton production was 6.84 million tonnes with cotton seed production of 13.68 million tonnes. [9]
Pakistan is the 4th largest producer of cotton with the third largest spinning capacity in Asia. It contributes 5% to the global spinning capacity. At present, there are 1,221 ginning units, 442 spinning units and 124 large spinning units in addition to 425 small units which produce textiles. Pakistan is the third largest consumer of cotton.
West Texas, the largest cotton producing region in the U.S., is seeing the worst drought conditions in decades. ... The World Bank expects cotton prices to surge 40% this year. The upward movement ...
The cotton harvest is about to get underway in the Texas High Plains, the windswept region that grows most of the crop in the nation’s top cotton-producing state. Extreme heat and a dearth of ...
While most of the world's cotton producing nations are members, two of the ten largest producers (The People's Republic of China and Turkmenistan) are not members of the ICAC. All of the top five cotton exporting nations are members.