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Related Keywords: empowered about forty cotton farmers, financed by United Kingdom, improve their corp, International Trade Centre, organized programme, part of project funded by EU, to help them process cotton into lint, with value addition skill, yarn and potentially artisanal products

A programme was organized by the International Trade Centre (ITC), as part of a project funded by the European Union and financed by the United Kingdom that empowered about 40 cotton farmers with value addition skills to improve their crop through a comprehensive farmer-training programme in Mumbwa.

The participants, mostly women, acquired life skills to help them process cotton into lint, yarn and potentially artisanal products.

Over 300,000 small-scale cotton farmers in Eastern, Muchinga, Central, Lusaka and Southern provinces earn income for their livelihoods from the crop.

Related Keywords: business process outsourcing, cotton, east African countries, five years project, for export, improve competitiveness, International Trade Centre, linkage with Indian companies, meet Indian market demand, produce high-quality products, project targets priority sectors, SITA, textiles and apparel, United Nations, World Trade Organization

The World Trade Organization and the United Nations mandated the International Trade Centre (ITC) to design and implement a five years projects called Supporting Indian Trade and Investment for Africa (SITA) to improve competitiveness of five east African countries through linkages with Indian companies.

The $20 million India-East Africa trade and investment improving projects, aims to boost business between the two sides on selected sectors.

Related Keywords: African cotton, intermediary wholesaler, International Trade Centre, raw cotton, raw material, Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, Vietnam Cotton & Spinning Association, Vietnam textile and garment sector

The rapidly growing textile and garment sector of Vietnam is excessively dependent on imported raw material for which it pays exceedingly high prices, as most of the raw materials for the sector originate in Africa and are sold to Vietnamese manufacturers through intermediary French, Swiss and Indian wholesalers.