MALI: Cotton Growers Expect Bumper Harvest
[Jun 28, 2003] West Africa's largest producer of cotton, Mali, is likely to see its output beat initial forecasts this growing season, an official said...
MALI: Ivory Coast War Brings Lower Cotton Profits
[Jan 03, 2003] Mali's state-owned cotton company (CMDT) has slashed this year's profit forecast by 67 percent because of increased transport costs due to war in neighboring Ivory Coast, a company official said recently...
MALI: Shortfall In Cotton Crop
[Jul 31, 2002] The West African country of Mali is likely to produce almost 20 percent less cotton than it had previously expected after poor rains disrupted the sowing season. This year's crop is forecast to be less than 500,000 tonnes.....
MALI: U.S. Subsidies Create Cotton Glut That Hurts Foreign Cotton Farms
[Jun 27, 2002] After the first good rains of the season visited this West African village earlier this month, Mody Sangare hitched his one-blade plow to two lanky oxen and began turning over the dirt of his fields. Walking barefoot behind the plow, the 22-year-old farmer would spend the next 14 days tilling and planting 15 acres of cotton.....
MALI: Cotton Deliveries Reach 418,000 Tons
[Mar 22, 2002] Cotton deliveries in Mali had reached 418,000 tons by March 18, or 71 percent of the expected crop of 592,648 tons.....