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Sugar Cane Growing

Hay and Other Crop Growing

Cotton Ginning

Up & Down Stream Sectors

Cotton Ginning

Fertiliser Mfg.

Pesticide Mfg.

Companies In This Industry

Kahlbetzer Investments Pty Limited

Auscott Limited

John Swire & Sons Pty Limited

Industry Report of This Risk Rating

Cotton Growing

Factors Affecting This Industry

Level of Annual Rainfall

Agricultural Irrigation Water Use

World price of cotton

International Reports

Cotton Farming in the US

Cotton Growing in Australia - Risk Report

23 Aug 2010, 19 pages
Industry Code: A0162

This report looks at the operational risk associated with this industry. Three types of risk are recognized in our analysis. These are: risk arising from within the industry itself (structural risk), risks arising from the expected future performance of the industry (growth risk) and risk arising from forces external to the industry (external sensitivity risk).

Farms in this industry grow cotton. Cotton is the white downy fibres grown on shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium. These fibres are used to make textiles and other products.

The primary activities of firms in this industry are:

Land cultivation
Cotton growing
Cotton Baling

Similar Industries

A0161 - Sugar Cane Growing in Australia

The operational processes involved in cotton growing can also be applied to sugar cane growing. Similar activities include land cultivation and the harvesting process.

A0169 - Hay and Other Crop Growing in Australia

Growing these crops depends on similar operational processes and land requirements to cotton. So, cotton farmers will often grow these alternative crops when conditions do not favour cotton growing.

A0211 - Cotton Ginning in Australia

The subsequent process to cotton growing in Australia. The process entails the separation of the cotton from its seeds.