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During the ongoing calendar year, cotton production in China increased by 9.7 percent year-on-year to 6.164 million tonnes, according to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Cotton production particularly increased in Xinjiang, the main cotton growing region in China.
Both the area under cotton cultivation and yield per hectare increased during the year. While the total cotton planting area rose by 1.8 percent compared to the last year, the yield per unit area saw a sharp jump of 7.8 percent to touch 2,172 kg per hectare, as per the NBS data.
Cotton plantation area expanded by 3.3 percent to 2.45 million hectares in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in the northwest of China. On the other hand, area under cotton cultivation in the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins declined by 13.6 percent and 1.6 percent, respectively…
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