US trade representative for Africa warns cotton producers
19 Jul '06
1 min read
Overdependence of African cotton industry on the US cotton subsidy hampers growth of African cotton in highly competitive global market.
Assistant US trade representative for Africa, Florizelle Liser warned African cotton producers about lower output, lack of infrastructures like inadequate irrigation facilities, poor ginning system, which adversely affected to this industry.
If the subsidy on cotton would be eliminated, country will lose its competitiveness in global market and it would be very much beneficial to the countries like Brazil and Kazakhstan, informed Florizelle at Leon H Sullivan Summit.
West African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Benin and Senegal have shown their disappointment saying that cotton subsidies negatively affect their economies.
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