According to New York's April 7th news, the US Department of agriculture (USDA) is expected to not make a major adjustment to 2008/09's cotton production in this week's monthly supply and demand report, as the focus has shifted to the next crop.

The US Department of agriculture will announce the April supply and demand report on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT).

Flanagan Trading Corp said in the daily review: "we expect that the US and global cotton supply and demand data will not change much in this report."

First Capitol Group's cotton expert Sharon Johnson said in its report that the May supply data will contain the first estimate of USDA for the 2009/10 market year (August /7).

　　不像過去幾個(gè)月，當(dāng)時(shí)對(duì)棉花預(yù)估做了大幅調(diào)整，“本月的報(bào)告將溫和，相對(duì)穩(wěn)定，”她稱。市場(chǎng)關(guān)注焦點(diǎn)已經(jīng)轉(zhuǎn)向2009/10年度作物的生長(zhǎng)狀況，尤其是在USDA預(yù)估2009年棉花播種面積至高于預(yù)期的881.2萬英畝之后。

　　雖然USDA將在5月報(bào)告中公布其2009/10年度供應(yīng)的首次預(yù)估，更詳細(xì)的預(yù)估將會(huì)直到8月供需報(bào)告中才能獲得，屆時(shí)下一市場(chǎng)年度開始。USDA將在6月30日的種植報(bào)告中公布實(shí)際棉花播種面積。

Editor in chief: Xu Qiyun