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Ginnery

A plant that separates cotton lint from seed

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Plain meaning
A plant that separates cotton lint from seed
How to use it
Grow cotton only within reach of a ginnery that will buy it.
South African benchmark
South Africa's cotton sector is small, with gross value of production about R242 million in 2011/12 (Article 95).
Country notes
Cottco held a 42% share of Zimbabwe's 2026 cotton intake.
Go and read
M15
Calculate it
T-M15-01 Enterprise Budget
Library sources
LIB-A095, LIB-A096, LIB-P-Cotton, LIB-P-Cotton-IP
See also
Seed cotton
Cotton and Hemp: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedCotton and Hemp: how the business runsSold bykg of seed cotton per hectare1Plant2Grow3Pick seed cotton4Gin5Lint and seed cakeZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Cotton and Hemp Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M15 Cotton and Hemp.