February, 2003In the chart below,
notice that in 1990, the total value of cotton seed planted in the
United States, China and India was roughly equivalent. The U.S.
market has outgrown the other two in recent years.
Introducing estimated average seeding rates for selected
countries provides an idea of the market size in volume as well as
average seed costs per unit. The wide variation in the value of
cotton seed around the world suggests a mix of severe market
segmentation and imperfect area, cost and seeding rate estimates.
