White gold gamble: Togo turns to private sector for cotton revival Many farmers switched to corn and soy as the NSCT lowered the price for a kilogram of raw cotton. Contributor Friday, 02 July 2021, 07:11 Harvest time: Togo and Benin are looking to cotton to create jobs in their agriculture-dependent economies.
AGRICULTURE NEWS - In a bold but contested strategy, the West African state of Togo has bet heavily on the private sector to revive its struggling cotton industry. White gold, as cotton is sometimes called, accounts for only between one and 4.3 percent of the country s GDP, bringing 500,000 jobs for a population of 8.8 million.
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Togo s cotton output is expected to return to pre-pandemic levels in the next season, after shrinking by 43 per cent last year due to unfavourable weather and falling prices,.
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