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Marketing year (MY) 2023/24 area harvested for Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal is expected to remain the same as the previous year at 1.23 million hectares (MHA), as increases in Mali and Senegal were offset by losses in Burkina Faso due to...

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Senegal area harvested for marketing year (MY) 2023/24 is forecast to remain the same as the previous year at 1.23 million hectares (MHA) based on good farm gate prices, governments’ input subsidies, and farmers’ debt cancellation by the Malian and Senegalese governments.

Harvested cotton area for marketing year (MY) 2021/22 (August to July) in Mali, Senegal, and Burkina Faso is forecasted to increase 93 percent to 1.43 million hectares from the previous year.

The first planting of Bt. Cotton for commercialization in Kenya is planned for the start of the long rains season, which is expected in March or April 2020.

MY 2019/20 (August to July) area for Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali is forecast at 1.4 million hectares (HA), a 1.5 percent increase from the previous year primarily due to higher area in Mali....

MY 2019/20 (August to July) area for Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali is forecast at 1.56 million hectares (HA), a 12 percent increase from the previous year on the expectation....

Bt. cotton will likely be the first commercially approved genetically engineered (GE) crop for cultivation in Kenya.

Post forecasts MY 2018/19 (August to July) area for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Senegal at 1.71 million hectares (HA), a 0.9 percent increase from the previous year due mainly to reported....

Post forecasts MY 2018/19 (August to July) area for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Senegal at 1.71 million hectares (HA), a 0.9 percent increase from the previous year....

MY 2018/19 (August to July) total area for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Senegal is projected to decrease to 1.67 million hectares (HA) due to the possibility of limited credit and inputs....

MY 2018/19 (August to July) total area for Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Senegal is projected to decrease to 1.67 million hectares (HA) due to the possibility of limited credit and inputs....

West Africa’s (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Senegal) Marketing Year (MY) 2017/18 cotton production is forecast down to 2.8 million 480 lb. bales primarily due to drought and high pest pressures....