All eyes were on Texas recently, when hurricane Harvey hit South East Texas. Major industrial sectors in Texas such as cotton, oil refinery and transportation have been hard hit by the natural disaster.
Browsing: Plains Cotton Growers
Cotton industry stakeholders in the High Plains of Texas who gathered in Lubbock recently, were highly optimistic on this year’s cotton planting, Washington politics and global demand and market scenario. There is going to be lot of acres in Texas with about 20 per cent increase in acreage predicted.
The United States cotton producers are focusing their efforts to deliver quality cotton this year. A group of cotton producers, researchers, extension specialists, policy staff, industry personnel and bankers gathered in the Lubbock office of Plains Cotton Growers (PCG) to discuss the state of the cotton industry.
The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has estimated that the cotton crop for this season ending in September 2014 to be 37.6 million bales (170 kg each).