India 2019-20 cotton output estimate revised lower.

Indian cotton production for the 2019-20 season is seen at 29 million 480 lb bales, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) attache in New Delhi said in a report on Wednesday, down 1 percent from earlier estimates.

The production decline is the result of reduced plantings in central Maharashtra, where farmers are shifting towards soybeans as well as in Karnataka, where farmers are switching to pulses...

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