How to promote cotton production in Africa?
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Cotton crosses all of society and permeates the entire history of Burkina Faso.
RFI / Sayouba Traoré
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
51 mins
Mainly cultivated in Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, African cotton accounts for 10% of world production, according to the International Cotton Consultative Committee (ICAC).
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If cotton constitutes an important part of the export earnings of producing countries, they transform very little their production of fibers locally.
A real shortfall in terms of job creation and resources.
Indeed, domestic transformation could generate nearly $ 90 billion for the continent.
As the Covid-19 pandemic crippled the global textile industry, how have African countries adjusted?
How to promote the African fiber and find other outlets?
With :
Claire Fages
, journalist in the Economics department of RFI, presenter of the
Chronicle of Raw Materials
Gérald Estur
, consultant cotton specialist
Adama Traoré,
Deputy Director Confederation of Cotton Textiles and Clothing of Burkina Faso.
For further :
►
The raw materials column on
the extension of the American embargo on cotton from Xinjiang, China
► The chronicle of raw materials on
the catastrophic cotton campaign in Mali in 2020
►
The African debate on
the development of the textile industry in Mali.
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