Our goal is to develop strategies that will enhance sustainability, improve farmers’ livelihoods, and strengthen Africa’s influence in targeting a 70 per cent global cocoa output.

Mathias Azonnoudo, a 50-year-old farmer in Benin, was taking a break sitting on a large pile of freshly picked cotton, which ...

The increasing cultivation of crops like sugarcane, rice, and maize in traditional cotton zones is another significant issue. Fertile lands ideal for cotton are being diverted to water-intensive crops ...

Azonnoudo and other farmers in the West African country have benefited from a recent uptick in demand for cotton, with the government seeking to launch a "Made in Benin" clothing industry.

Among these, American cotton accounts for 90 percent of global production, Egyptian cotton 8 percent, and Desi and African cotton ... prompting farmers to switch to alternative crops like ...

It wasn’t that Gray didn’t want to stay in the family business. He’d grown up working alongside his father, Joseph, on a ...

Cotton prices in Kasese have plummeted from shillings 3,000 to 2,000, leaving farmers devastated. The development is on account of the bumper cotton harvest of about 17,000 bales compared to the ...