Bom Futuro group, considered one of Brazil’s largest cotton producers accounting for about 10% of the nation’s planted space, has seen yields fall 27% in contrast with the earlier season. Julio Cezar Busato, a grower in Sao Desiderio, Bahia state, has suffered from the same decline. Dryness is decreasing the variety of cotton bolls, making them lighter throughout all the nation’s important rising areas, he mentioned.