Cotton exports up 181.6% during Q2 of 2017-2018

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Mon, 04 Jun 2018 - 12:22 GMT

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FILE - CAPMAS

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CAIRO - 4 June 2018: The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) said that Egyptian cotton exports (from December 2017 to February 2018) increased by 181.6 percent to reach 379,700 tons against 134,800 tons during the same quarter of the previous year.

In its quarterly newsletter for the second quarter of the 2017-2018 agricultural year (lasting from December 2017 to February 2018), the agency said that total consumption rates of domestic cotton reached 47,200 metric kantars (one kantar is equal to 45.02 kilograms), compared to 127,600 metric kantars during the same period of the previous year, registering a decrease of 63 percent.

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