Cotton outlook
24 Apr 2025
Cotton Outlook’s estimate of global raw cotton production in 2024/25 has this month been reduced to 26.06 million tonnes, as an addition for Turkey was more than offset by lower figures for the African Franc Zone and smaller producing countries.
Our consumption figure was meanwhile reduced by 118,000 tonnes, attributed mostly to downward adjustments for China, Bangladesh and Vietnam. Therefore, the margin by which production is estimated to exceed consumption in the current season has increased to 1.32 million tonnes.
For 2025/26, small adjustments were made to our output forecasts, while consumption was raised by 12,000 tonnes. The result would be a slightly smaller addition to world stocks by the end of the next marketing year, of 356,000 tonnes.
(Source: https://outlook.live.com)