A detailed article entitled 'Long Term Trends in the Cost of Cotton Production' was published in the December 2013 issue of the ICAC RECORDER. The article dealt exclusively with world averages for the cost of various inputs and with long-term changes.The source of the information was the ICAC publication Cost of Production of Raw Cotton, September 2013, which contains data for the 2012/13 cotton production season. The inputs and operations covered in the surveyquestionnaire and used to compute net cost of production of cotton were also discussed in terms of world average levels in the December 2013 article to determine general trends. The cost of producing a kilogram of seedcotton and the net cost of producing a kilogram of lint, i.e., total cost minus land rent and the value of commercial seed (seed after ginning), was calculated. Land rent is excluded from the cost per kilogram of seedcotton.
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