{"id":243490,"date":"2026-09-06T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-cotton-revival-in-busia-hope-grows-amid-small-farms-dry-spells-and-a-silent-ginnery\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T20:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:51:02","slug":"angola-cotton-revival-in-busia-hope-grows-amid-small-farms-dry-spells-and-a-silent-ginnery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-cotton-revival-in-busia-hope-grows-amid-small-farms-dry-spells-and-a-silent-ginnery\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Cotton Revival In Busia &#8211; Hope Grows Amid Small Farms, Dry Spells And a Silent Ginnery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The roads leading into the interior of Busia County tell a story of a region that is slowly changing, but perhaps not fast enough.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">From Luanda to Bumala and Finyula, the journey is punctuated by dusty roads, boda bodas and stretches where getting to the farms is an exercise in patience. Away from the main roads, infrastructure remains a challenge, with motorcycles often providing the only practical means of reaching some farming areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">It is here, amid small farms and modest homesteads, that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609060020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The roads leading into the interior of Busia County tell a story of a region that is slowly changing, but perhaps not fast enough. From Luanda to Bumala and Finyula, the journey is punctuated by dusty roads, boda bodas and stretches where getting to the farms is an exercise in patience. Away from the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690331:c23b8cd140930bd837406dc8ec554769:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,1608,11099,11709,4556,55363,9886,8868,257,11019,7616,10046,254,22137],"class_list":["post-243490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-busia","tag-cotton","tag-dry","tag-farms","tag-grows","tag-hope","tag-news","tag-revival","tag-silent","tag-small","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spells"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690331:c23b8cd140930bd837406dc8ec554769:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243490","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=243490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}