2008/2009 Marketing Season.

Seed cotton purchases for the WCGA started on mid June. Forty two (42) companies both local and international registered with TCB to purchase the crop from the farmers. By the end of last week i.e. 17th October 2008 a total of 359,588 tons of seed cotton had been purchased and transported to various ginneries, purchases and transportation of seed cotton is going on in some few areas of WCGA. (see the table below). However seed cotton procurement in Eastern Cotton Growing Areas (ECGA) started late September but very little cotton has been purchased due to lack of enough buyers. Few companies registered to buy the crop though due to low production. Details on purchases by each company.

Cotton producer price started at Tshs 400/= per Kg of seed cotton (i.e. 16th June 2008) but up to last week price has increased up to Tshs 500/= per Kg of seed cotton.

Last season 2007/08 production was projected at 300,000 metric tons of seed cotton but at the turn of the season only 200,665 metric tons could be achieved. Low production was attributed to mainly by drought that affected cotton producing areas during cotton sowing season.

REGION	PERCHASES(Kgs)	TRANSPORTED (Kgs)
Sinyanga	230,188,793	226,660,644
Mwanza	75,267,725	74,084,998
Mara	22,570,665	22,570,665
Tabora	27,650,283	27,531,833
Kagera	6,819,010	6,805,410
Singida	2,252,280	1,522,270
Kigoma	412,273	412,273
Total	365,161,029	359,588,083

Purchases statistics 2007/08 .

Seed Cotton purchased and ginning.

For the last fifteen years production of cotton in Tanzania has been rising and falling due to different contributing factors mainly weather changes, poor farming practices and fluctuation in producer price. Production trend.

 

 

Cotton purchases and processing 2006/07 season.

Production decline from 374,818 tons of seed cotton last season to less than 129,000 tons of seed cotton this season mostly due to drought that affected the entire cotton producing area in the country. The scarcity of cotton was however a blessing to producers because the competition led to increase in producer price. Compared with last season producer price increase by over 50% from Tshs 250 last season to 450 per kilogram of seed cotton this season.

Purchases for each company.

Production by regions in WCGA

COTTON MARKETING 2005/06

Cotton marketing season 2005/06 started on June 2005. The number of seed cotton buyers increased from 25 on early July to 29 on August countrywide (both Western and Eastern cotton producing zones). The two zones are made of Shinyanga, Mwanza, Mara, Tabora, Singida, Kagera, Kigoma, Morogoro, Coast, Tanga, Iringa, Kilimanjaro and Manyara regions. Seed cotton purchased and transported to various ginneries by mid March 2006 was 374.8 million kilograms which is equivalent to 694,108 bales of cotton lint (each bale weigh 181kgs). Over 98% of the cotton is produced in WCGA. Production by regions WCGA. Purchases by every registered Seed Cotton Buyer is as indicated below;

• Cotton Marketing 2004/05
• Bales produced 2005
• Seed cotton produced in 2003/04 season
• Seed cotton production in 14 years
• Lint production
• More data on Lint production.
• Producer price for 2002/03 season from selected area western zone
• More information see 2001/02 season
• Graph Showing production for the last 10 years
• Graph Showing production for the last 10 years by Region
• Cotton Growing Areas