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.
