{"id":244136,"date":"2026-09-12T07:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rebuilds-the-cotton-chain-from-field-to-fabric\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:37:07","slug":"kenya-rebuilds-the-cotton-chain-from-field-to-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-rebuilds-the-cotton-chain-from-field-to-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Rebuilds The Cotton Chain From Field To Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>Farmers are returning to cotton in coastal Kenya, while a new ginnery and one of the country&#8217;s few surviving integrated textile mills are rebuilding links from field to factory.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In the small coastal town of Mpeketoni in Lamu County, cotton is once again becoming a crop worth growing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Farmers are returning to their fields, Bt cotton seed is being distributed and a new ginnery is bringing processing closer to where the crop is grown. The cotton produced here is transported to Thika Cloth Mills&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609110655.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers are returning to cotton in coastal Kenya, while a new ginnery and one of the country&#8217;s few surviving integrated textile mills are rebuilding links from field to factory. In the small coastal town of Mpeketoni in Lamu County, cotton is once again becoming a crop worth growing. Farmers are returning to their fields, Bt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":244137,"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\/00690359:d5bb13b217f69ce28297580426853842:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8011,11099,29007,6160,4688,430,257,27221,254],"class_list":["post-244136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chain","tag-cotton","tag-fabric","tag-field","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-rebuilds","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690359:d5bb13b217f69ce28297580426853842:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244136","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}