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Cotton companies are offering farmers top-up payments for higher-grade cotton delivered last season as input distribution ramps up.<\/p>\n
Last year’s El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought severely impacted crop production, including cotton, which plummeted to a record low of 13 000 tonnes.<\/p>\n
However, hopes are high for the upcoming season, with the anticipated La Ni\u00f1a weather pattern promising better rainfall.<\/p>\n
Cotton is a major agricultural export commodity that benefits various sectors, including the textile…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Cotton companies are offering farmers top-up payments for higher-grade cotton delivered last season as input distribution ramps up. Last year’s El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought severely impacted crop production, including cotton, which plummeted to a record low of 13 000 tonnes. However, hopes are high for the upcoming season, with the anticipated La Ni\u00f1a weather pattern promising […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9704,11099,3030,257,9105,254,49960,4686,421],"class_list":["post-184466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-companies","tag-cotton","tag-farmers","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-topups","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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