Changes to China’s farm subsidies, which would allow market forces to have more influence over domestic cotton and soybean prices, should also result in substantially lower state stockpiling. This could release a significant amount of supply onto global markets, or at least reduce China’s demand for imports, putting downward pressure on the price of cotton over the next few years.
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