The Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan is planning to harvest more than 1.05 million tons of cotton in 2014-15 by sowing seeds on 545,000 hectares of land, reports the State News Agency of Turkmenistan. At a meeting of the Cabinet ...
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Cotton cultivators in southern African nation of Tanzania have expressed displeasure over the implementation of the new contract farming system in the country. At a recent cotton stakeholders' meeting, farmers said the new system is ...
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A suggestion extended by some of the Lake Zone based cotton industry stakeholders to abolish the newly introduced contract farming in Tanzania, has been turned down by the Tanzanian Cotton Board (TCB). Claiming that they were facing ...
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The Colombian experience of growing Bt cotton can be replicated in Kenya, and it would boost the performance of Kenyan agricultural sector, according to an expert. Dr. Charles Waturu, the Centre Director of Kenya Agricultural Research ...
Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil has announced that interest on loans extended for agricultural production, including to cotton cultivators, will be calculated at a rate of five percent per annum. The announcement implies that ...
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