- The government claims that the record production was achieved by maintaining incentives like a subsidy on agricultural inputs, maintaining a minimal shift in the cost of cotton among other initiatives. The total production figures have made Mali as the top cotton producer on the African continent.
The President of the Transition Assimi Goita has stated that Mali has recorded its largest cotton production of more than 760,000 tons for the 2021-2022 season. At the end of the 2019/2020 season, Mali’s cotton production stood around 700,000 tons, up by 6.6 percent from 2018/2019 when it became second-largest producer of white gold in Africa behind Benin.
The government claims that the record production was achieved by maintaining incentives like a subsidy on agricultural inputs, maintaining a minimal shift in the cost of cotton among other initiatives. The total production figures have made Mali as the top cotton producer on the African continent.
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In its report of September 2021, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had projected that Mali will be the largest cotton producer in Africa for the 2021/2022 season, followed by Benin, Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso. Mali increased the area of cotton planting to a record 795,000 hectares (ha), against 630,000 hectares (382%) from last year, the document reported.
