Table 3: Export composition of cotton from India for TE 1988 to 2006.
(Quantity in thousand tonnes and value in million rupees)
Note: Figures in parentheses indicate percentages to column total.

Year

Bengal desi

Small

Medium

Long and extra

Others Total

 

Quantity

Value

Quantity

Value

Quantity

Value

Quantity

Value

Quantity

Value

Quantity

Value

TE 1988

6.04

105.92

16.53

279.43

23.20

288.07

39.79

540.54

0.75

8.83

86.31

1222.79

(7.00)

(8.66)

(19.15)

(22.85)

(26.88)

(23.56)

(46.10)

(44.21)

(0.87)

(0.72)

(100.00)

(100.00)

TE 1991

35.73

600.47

8.59

247.47

6.56

175.19

71.10

2006.91

7.30

140.13

129.28

3170.17

(27.64)

(18.94)

(6.64)

(7.81)

(5.08)

(5.53)

(54.99)

(63.31)

(5.65)

(4.42)

(100.00)

(100.00)

TE 1994

30.72

965.60

5.04

157.11

 

2.79

88.29

99.31

2544.31

0.92

40.32

138.77

3795.64

(22.13)

(25.44)

(3.63)

(4.14)

(2.01)

(2.33)

(71.56)

(67.03)

(0.66)

(1.06)

(100.00)

(100.00)

TE 1997

35.56

2129.62

3.22

190.93

10.05

711.86

54.32

2788.44

5.35

209.12

108.50

6029.97

(32.77)

(35.32)

(2.96)

(3.17)

(9.27)

(11.81)

(50.06)

(46.24)

(4.93)

(3.47)

(100.00)

(100.00)

TE 2000

23.05

1161.58

3.52

193.75

25.64

1344.90

5.44

505.21

8.97

352.16

66.62

3557.59

(34.60)

(32.65)

(5.28)

(5.45)

(38.49)

(37.80)

(8.17)

(14.20)

(13.47)

(9.90)

(100.00)

(100.00)

TE 2003

6.85

323.15

0.82

38.75

0.84

42.27

1.45

49.91

3.40

107.54

13.36

561.61

(51.28)

(57.54)

(6.13)

(6.90)

(6.29)

(7.53)

(10.88)

(8.89)

(25.42)

(19.15)

(100.00)

(100.00)

TE 2006

57.71

2882.50

33.33

1556.29

49.35

2043.21

129.97

6217.66

6.73

249.95

277.09

12949.61

(20.83)

(22.26)

(12.03)

(12.02)

(17.81)

(15.78)

(46.91)

(48.01)

(2.43)

(1.93)

(100.00)

(100.00)