Ivory Coast eyes 2008-09 cotton output of 400,000 tonnes

Ivory Coast aims to more than double its cotton output to 400,000 tonnes in the 2008/09 season, the level it was at before the country's civil war, from 150,000 tonnes this season, the Intercoton growers' group said.
"Next year we will be able to sow 300,000 hectares to give us 400,000 tonnes of cotton," Seydou Soro, president of the Intercoton association of growers and processors, told Reuters in a telephone interview late on Thursday.