BAMAKO, April 10 (Reuters) - Cotton production in Mali jumped 18 percent in the 2016/2017 season to 647,212 tonnes, the country's highest yield in more than a decade, an official at the Malian Company for the Development of Textiles (CMDT) said on Monday.

Output this season was boosted by increased prices and fertiliser subsidies fixed in 2015, and the CMDT expects next season's production to rise to 725,000 tonnes.

"The season is now over. All of the factories have stopped since April 4 after a record production," Moussa Yattara, a technical advisor at the CMDT, told Reuters. "It has been an exceptional campaign by all measures."

Next season's target will be achieved by planting more land, renewing subsidies and continuing a two-year-old programme that provides tractors at reduced prices, the agriculture ministry said in a statement last month.

Mali is West Africa's biggest cotton producer and its season runs from April to March in two phases, production between May/June and September/October, with commercialisation from October/November to end-March.

(Reporting By Tiemoko Diallo; Writing by Aaron Ross, editing by Pritha Sarkar)