Zimbabwe: Cotton Seed Sales Rise

Cotton seed sales during the year to June 16, 2017 amounted to seven million kilogrammes, marking a 100 percent increase over the prior year when no sales were recorded, according to statistics from the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA).

This comes as cotton output is projected to recover to around 110 000 tonnes in the 2016/17 season, spurred by government's free input support programme that helped reduce production costs and a good rainfall season.

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