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D-seed-cotton Dictionary

Seed cotton

Cotton as picked, before the lint is separated from the seed

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Plain meaning
Cotton as picked, before the lint is separated from the seed
How to use it
Sell seed cotton by grade to the contracting ginner.
South African benchmark
South Africa's cotton sector is small and largely mechanised.
Country notes
Zimbabwe's 2026 minimum seed cotton prices ran from US$0.35 to US$0.43 per kg.
Go and read
M15-U1, M15-U2, C8 Lesson 8.1
Calculate it
T-M15-01 Enterprise Budget
Library sources
LIB-A070, LIB-A095, LIB-A098, LIB-P-Cotton, LIB-P-Cotton-IP
See also
Lint, Ginnery
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.