“Shi predicted there would be a slight increase in the sown area of cotton for fiscal 2008 but cotton output would remain at the production level of fiscal 2007. .China imported a record amount of 4.11 million tons of cotton in fiscal 2005 but only 2.28 million tons in 2006. overtook the United States China’s largest cotton supplier in fiscal 2007. .Source: Xinhua
Date:5/12/2008
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