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D-lint Dictionary

Lint

The cotton fibre after ginning

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Plain meaning
The cotton fibre after ginning
How to use it
Track lint prices as the driver of seed cotton prices.
South African benchmark
South African lint demand shrank with its textile industry (Article 97).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M15-U2, M15-U3, M15-U4
Calculate it
T-M15-03 Market Price Comparator
Library sources
LIB-A096, LIB-A097, LIB-A106, 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.