The cotton production In Argentina it is presented as marginal and is located as a secondary player in the world market. In this sense, half of the fiber produced – that of better quality – is used by the Argentine textile industryand the other half is destined for countries such as Pakistan, China, India and Vietnam, to name some of Southeast Asia.
Therefore, as he commented to the program “Our land”of radio profile, Carlos Almirotywho is president of the Argentine cotton chamber and also producer of Chaco, would not be strange for some shirt to say “Made in Pakistan”have a stroke of Argentine cotton. “This is how the world cotton market works”He said.
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Almiroty pondered the work that has been doing not only the local cotton production, but also the local spinner and textile industrysince “like so many items in Argentina, it survived and is very competitive.”
“The Evolution of the cotton business In the world. Therefore, the Argentine agricultural producer in general, and there the cotton is no exceptionplay in Super Firstand many times without the elements that the agricultural producers of other countries have, due to the restrictions offered by the local economy, ”he marked.
Productive problems
But beyond that, the productive problems They emerge in this harvest. Thus, the head of the cotton chamber described as “atrocious” The heat lived in the fields of the North Argentina during the last summer, where they were recorded “More than two months without rains” and also temperatures that “at night were around 35 to 37 degrees.”
The lack of moisture and rains, added to high temperatures, as Almiroty said, will have its impact on the cotton quality which will be harvested until next August.
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“That is why this year, we have lost enough kilos regarding the production of projected fibers. Now that we start the campaign, we see that quality is quite bad. We hope that the cotton that appears improves to the extent that this climatic adversity that I described has not affected it so much. Unfortunately it will be a year in which quality will be a variant that It will complicate the cotton producer”, He explained.
On the other hand, Amiroty commented that half of the cotton fiber production, the highest quality, is acquired by local industrywho pays a value that improves the FOB value, that is, the price that the product receives for export in the warehouses of the ships.
“Importing these raw materials would be much more expensive”, Almiroty acknowledged. Likewise, the other half, that of a lower quality, is destined for countries such as Pakistan and China, among others from Southeast Asia. There is the bulk of the textile industry in the world.
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