ONE of the country’s largest lint exporters, Southern Cotton, is undergoing massive expansion across the country with the ...

COTTON has emerged the third largest biotechnology crop in the world, accounting for 12 percent of the total biotechnology area in 2008. Zimbabwe: Biotech Cotton Production Increases - allAfrica ...

Interview - The cotton industry in Zimbabwe has grappled with a plethora of challenges threatening its viability. Southern Cotton Company (SCC) now says there have been drawbacks when it comes to ...

Zimbabwe’s second-largest cotton firm, Southern Cotton Company, is targeting a boom in cotton production for its operations across provinces as it seeks to match the growing export market demand ...

Cotton farmers are getting poorer each farming season because the $0.35 per kg prices are not viable at all, and most cotton growers are abandoning the crop. Cotton production in Zimbabwe declined to ...

Cotton production falling. Meanwhile, as cotton farmers in Zimbabwe fall on hard times, cotton production here declined to an all-time low of 32,000 tons in 2016 from 84,000 tons in 2015, and ...

Zimbabwe’s cotton farmers delivered 249.9 million kilograms (551 million pounds) of cotton to merchants by Oct. 31, 168 percent more than at the same time last year, the state-controlled Herald ...

Zimbabwe's largest cotton producing company, Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco), has lost 1.2-million kilograms of cotton lint worth an estimated US$2.5m (about R37.5m) in a fire at a ginning ...

As such, as the cotton farmers fall deeper and deeper into poverty, cotton deliveries in Zimbabwe last year jumped to 116,052 tons from 82,479 tons in 2020 following subsidies and increased ...

HARARE, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe is targeting to produce 400,000 tons of cotton this farming season, a fivefold increase from last year.