Progress of cotton cultivation during the month of October in Spain

The dominant phenological state of the crop has been in the vast majority of plots, as explained by the Andalusian Phytosanitary Alert and Information Network (RAIF), "A" (open capsules). The average temperature in October was 15.2% higher than the historical average temperature recorded in Andalusia for this month. In all the provinces, the average temperature was higher than the historical average for October, specifically 20.5º. With regard to rainfall, it was 73% lower than the average for this month in Andalusia as a whole. The average rainfall this October in Andalusia has been 15.4 mm of rainwater (57 mm in the history of the last 20 years). Thus, this month of October has been the warmest and the driest since the year 2000. These weather conditions have favored the normal harvesting of the crop in all the cotton provinces of Andalusia. Defoliant applications ended the second week of October. The harvest began the first week of September in the provinces of Seville and ...