China produced 5.605 million tonnes of cotton in 2015, 574,000 tonnes fewer than in 2014, or down 9.3 percent year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday on its website. The total cotton-growing area in China stood at 3,799,000 hectares in 2015, down 10 percent from 2014, the NBS said. Output per hectare was 1,475.3 kg in 2015, up 0.8 percent from 2014, the NBS said.
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