# Cotton crop thrives in the Kimberley after past failures - ABC News

> Chinese-owned Kimberley Agricultural Investment is growing its first commercial-sized cotton crop in the Ord River region in four decades, on 350 hectares. CSIRO estimates 15,000 hectares could be worth $80 million locally, rising to $340 million with Queensland beef spin-offs.

- Date: 2018-11-17 · published 2018-11-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Australia · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/62154-cotton-crop-thrives-in-the-kimberley-after-past-failures-abc-news
- Commodities: [Cottonseed Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CSM.md)

## Why it matters

This is a small, experimental expansion of Australian cotton that adds negligible cottonseed supply to feed markets in the near term.

## Sources

- abc.net.au: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-18/ord-cotton-in-the-kimberley/10505254

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