The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) has released its much-awaited Cotton Data Book 2022. At 949 information-packed pages, the publication is hundreds of pages bigger than last year’s edition.
- The 2022 Cotton Data Book contains hundreds of tables, graphs and charts to help make the enormous amount of information easier to understand and analyse.
Larger in Scope: The number of pages has increased in the current version because of the following new additions:
- Graphs on seasonal crop evapotranspiration (Etc) based on Penman Monteith equation have been included, which will allow researchers to calculate water use efficiency for countries.
- Graphs on country-wise cotton-textile trade (Imports and exports under HS Code 52) have been included.
- Data and graphs on country-wise usage (volume and value) of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides etc., have been included.
- Graphs on Degree Days and rainfall have been presented in an enlarged format to include monthly data of 18 months up to November 2022.
Among the topics covered in the massive resource are:
- Production and trade data for cotton producing and consuming countries,
- Global distribution of pests, diseases and weeds,
- Sowing and harvesting calendars,
- Global distribution of Bt cotton varieties and hybrids,
- Operational costs per hectare,
- Crop-wise share of pesticides,
- Cost per kg for fertilisers, weeding and ginning,
- A 20-year overview of production costs per kg of lint and seed cotton, and much more.
What They Said:
There is so much new information to publish that the 2022 version of the Cotton Data Book is nearly twice the size of the prior year’s version.
— Keshav Kranthi
Chief Scientist and author of Cotton Data Book
International Cotton Advisory Committee
