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Fresh potato production for MY 2022/23 (September to August) is forecast at 93 million metric tons (MMT), a small decrease from the estimated 95 MMT produced in MY 2021/22 owing to reduced acreage. ....
Domestic cotton production may rise this year Local cotton production is likely to increase this year thanks to rising acreage and expansion of cultivation of hybrid varieties, stakeholders said. During the current season, farmers have sown cotton on nearly 44,450 hectares of land, said Md Akhteruzzaman, additional director of the Cotton Development Board (CDB). Overall production is likely to be around 200,000 bales (one bale equals roughly 480 pounds) in fiscal 2020-21, he said. We did not see rainfall in the November-December period. This has brightened prospects of a good crop, he said. Farmers produced 4 per cent higher crop year-on-year to 177,890 bales in fiscal 2019-20 from that a year ago, showed data of the CDB. ....