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China produced 5.605 million tonnes of cotton in 2015, 574,000 tonnes fewer than in 2014, or down 9.3 percent year on year, and total cotton-growing area stood at 3,799,000 hectares in 2015, down 10 percent from 2014, due to decline in planted acreage for this year’s crop according to the National Bureau of Statistics revealed on Friday.
The figure is higher than recent trade estimates, many of which put this year's cotton output at less than 5 million tonnes after poor summer weather pulled down yields.
