Uganda’s 2014-15 Cotton Output Seen Climbing on Global Prices
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Cotton production in Uganda, East Africa’s second-biggest grower of the fiber, may climb almost 80 percent in 2014-15 as stable global prices and improved weather boost planting, the country’s regulator said.
Output may rise to 140,000 185-kilogram bales of lint in the production year through September 2015 from 78,000 bales in the previous season, Jolly Sabune, managing director of Uganda’s Cotton Development Organisation, said yesterday in an interview in the capital, Kampala.