OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025 Commodity Snapshots: Cotton

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025 Commodity Snapshots: Cotton

Year of publication 2016

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 12p.

Publisher OECD/FAO ;

Product type Document

Category Other document

ISBN 978-92-64-25322-3

Series title OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook

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Synopsis (short abstract) The world cotton market experienced dramatic developments in the first half of the 2015 marketing year (see glossary for a definition of marketing year) caused by an acute drop in production – about 9% – in major producing countries.Worldwide cotton production has not declined this much since 2008. This unexpected drop in production led to releases of stocks; however, total world stocks still remain at a very high level (20 Mt, 5% down from 2014).

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This annex contains projections of statistical data by production, consumption, use, exports, closing stocks and price for each commodity covered by the report.
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Chapter 1: Overview of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2016-2025

Chapter 2: Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Prospects and challenges for the next decade

Chapter 3: Commodity snapshots

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Fish and Seafood
Biofuels
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