THE 2015/2016 cotton production estimates indicate that the country will this year produce between 70 000 and 80 000 tonnes of cotton, down from 104 000 tonnes produced last season.
The decline in output is due to poor prices and a marketing regime that cotton growers feel favours merchants against farmers.
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