By Gazette staff CAIRO, August 29, 2018 - The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) said on Wednesday that cotton exports during the third quarter of the agricultural season 2017-2018 rose to 160,100 qintars against 149,700 qintars during the same period in the previous season. CAPMAS added that the total use of cotton domestically was 39,200 qintars during the above-mentioned period, against 93,000 qintars, which was a decline of 57.9 per cent. The reason was that there was a trend for spinning factories to use imported cotton, the bulletin added. The amount of cotton that has been ginned was 47,700 qintars during the aforementioned period, against 55,000 qintars, which was a 14,4 per cent decline.