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Cotton growers settle on Tarwoo Station, near Katherine, as site of NT’s first gin
Construction is set to begin on the Northern Territory’s first commercial cotton gin in July as growers commit to a site near Katherine.
Key points:
- Top End growers have been trucking cotton 3,500km to Queensland for processing
- Between 6,000 and 8,000 hectares of cotton are expected to be grown in NT next season
- The chair of the development group behind the project says the NT gin will not impact on a potential WA operation
Over the last few years, Top End farmers have slowly increased plantings of cotton, but the industry’s development has been hampered by the lack of a local processing facility.
Growers have been trucking cotton bales 3,500 kilometres to gins in south-east Queensland, with transport costs severely cutting into profits.
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