Zimbabwe: Cotton Production and Consumption Annual Report
Post forecasts that the area under cotton production in Zimbabwe will increase, under normal climatic conditions, to about 300,000 hectares and production will recover to around 210,000 MT in the 2016/17 MY. This recovery will mainly be spurred on by the Zimbabwean government’s free inputs support program that will reduce the production costs of cotton farmers. In the 2015/16 MY, seed cotton production decreased by 23 percent to around 80,000 MT, after one of the worst droughts the past 35 years hit Southern Africa.
