From August 25th-28th, continuous rainfall weathers appeared in Shangqiu of Henan Province, which have caused some lodging phenomenon for some cotton plants, but the impact for output is very limited.

The investigation shows, the local cotton is generally growing better this year than that of last year, the cotton plant diseases and insect pests are lighter than usual. At present, each cotton plant has 17-30 bolls and 16-20 buds. The spring-sown cotton is batting in small volumes, and summer-sown cotton will begin to bat from the beginning of October, at around October 20th, the new cotton is anticipated to come into market in large volumes. According to the introduction form cotton farmers, if the weathers in post-phase is normal, the unit output of seed cotton this year is anticipated to reach 3,750-4,500 kg/hectare, and up 15% from last year.