CHINESE-AFRICAN COTTON AGREEMENT COULD HERALD NEW ERA FOR AFRICAN COTTON INDUSTRY
January 1st, 2012
BY WANG FANGQING IN SHANGHAI
A RECENT Chinese-African cotton agreement could usher in a new era for the African cotton industry but not in the short-term, say industry experts.
Under the agreement, signed in December with four key cotton-producing African countries - Benin, Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso (known as the C4) - China stated it would provide machinery, expertise and materials in a bid to increase and improve the quality of local production.
At the signing ceremony in Geneva, Chinese commerce minister Chen Deming suggested this was a step towards ...
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