There are fears that cotton output will plummet further this season to 3 000 metric tonnes (MT) from last season’s 6 000 MT following the drastic drop in the number of registered farmers. We expect cotton output to be between 3 000MT and 4 000MT because most farmers have not grown cotton. “The registered farmers range between 6 000 and 7 000 from between 22 000 and about 23 000 last year. “As ginners, we did not have access to see the registration records, but on the ground, the number of cotton farmers had sharply dropped,” he said. Since 2010 when cotton output reached 100 000MT, production has averaged about 10 000MT for the past decade with last year recorded at about 8 000MT, raking in $3 million (about K5.9 billion).