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Tanzania looking forward to grow the cotton sector
While cotton growing and ginning is a top agricultural export industry in Tanzania, the sector has been struggling for the past 50 years. As a result, Tanzania’s half a million smallholder
Tanzania set to cultivate cotton on 196,373 acres by 2018
Tanzania is set to get competitive in cotton farming, with Geita Region making its debut of the crop for the 2017/18 that was opened under 196, 373 acres. The land is set to be cultivated in
Drop in quality cotton harvest across western zone of Tanzania
The quality of this year's cotton has dropped across all the districts in the Western Zone of Tanzania. Only Meatu, Maswa and Bariadi districts in Simiyu Region have produced quality cotton,
Tanzania cotton output may double in 2017
Stronger prices for the fiber spurs Tanzanian farmers, the world’s fourth-biggest producer of the organic variety to increase cultivation which may double cotton production to a four year
Tanzanian cotton growers suffer loss due unfriendly weather and collapse of contract farming
COTTON growers and buyers in the lake zone due to drought stand to suffer substantial losses this year. Besides the bad weather, the collapse of contract farming has had a negative impact on cotton
Vietnam's Garment 10 Corporation offers Tanzania opportunity to export cotton
Vietnam's Garment 10 Corporation (Garco 10), one of the oldest garment companies in Vietnam which has grown to become one of Vietnam’s foremost apparel companies based in Hanoi. Its President,
UK pushes use of Bt Cotton in Tanzania to increase production
Tanzania has turned be become a net clothing importer with most of the clothing coming from the United States, European Union, China and India, after the break down of its textile industries in late
Haelixa partners with Reinhart to offer traceable organic cotton from Africa
Cotton merchant Reinhart with headquarters in Winterthur, will be the first to sell organic cotton from Africa that can be traced back to its source. The international company is using Haelixa's
How much organic cotton is grown all over the world?
According to a report published by Textile Exchange, Organic Cotton Farm & Fiber in 2018, the production of organic cotton in the world in 2017 was more than 117,000 metric tons. The farms which
What is organic cotton?
Cotton cultivated without using GMO seeds and synthetic chemicals like plant growth regulators, defoliants and fertilizer is referred to as ‘organic’ cotton. While natural chemicals like Bt