The country’s cotton yield per hectare jumped by 5.3 per cent to 1,992.2 kg. The Xinjiang province, which is China’s largest cotton-growing region, accounted for 90.2 per cent of the nation’s total cotton output in 2022. The yield per hectare in the province rose by 5.5 per cent, local media reports quoted NBS official Wang Guirong as saying.

China’s cotton output saw a 4.3 per cent YoY increase in 2022 with almost 5.98 million tonnes of cotton produced. Favourable weather conditions enabled a higher yield per hectare, as per the NBS. The country’s cotton yield per hectare jumped by 5.3 per cent to 1,992.2 kg, while the total area of cotton fields dropped to about 3 million hectares.

Furthermore, NBS data showed that the total area of cotton fields in China dropped by 0.9 per cent from 2021 to about 3 million hectares.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (NB)