Zimbabwe: From Seed to Cooking Oil, Zimbabwe Builds New Rural Economy

Several kilometres from Gokwe’s sprawling cotton fields, located mostly in the south, the familiar story of Zimbabwe’s ‘white gold’ takes an unexpected turn.

The fluffy white fibre that has defined the country’s cotton industry for generations has already been stripped away. What remains are thousands of tiny brown seeds feeding steadily into conveyors, crushers and refining equipment.

Inside this local processing plant owned by Cangrow Cotton Company (CCC), located in a town called Nembudziya…