{"id":3687,"date":"2019-07-10T07:57:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T04:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:24","slug":"cotton-output-to-hit-decade-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/10\/cotton-output-to-hit-decade-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Output To Hit Decade High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By GERALD ANDAE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cotton production this\nyear is expected to triple compared to last year, marking one of the highest\nyields to have been recorded in the last decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fibre Crops Directorate\nforecasts production will increase from 10,672 tonnes realised last year to\n30,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Increased production\nhas been attributed to better investment and incentives to farmers as the\ngovernment moves in to spur manufacturing under the Big Four agenda where\nPresident Uhuru Kenyatta is targeting manufacturing, affordable housing,\nuniversal healthcare and agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will be witnessing\ntremendous harvest of cotton this year in a decade because of the investment\nthat we have put on farmers to spur production in line with the government\u2019s\nbig four agenda,\u201d said Naomi Kamau, head of directorate fibre crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, she noted that\nproduction will be slightly less than what had been projected because of harsh\nweather conditions witnessed during the current crop season\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/markets\/marketnews\/Cotton-output-to-hit-decade-high\/3815534-5189570-qt4uhtz\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By GERALD ANDAE Cotton production this year is expected to triple compared to last year, marking one of the highest yields to have been recorded in the last decade. Fibre&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-responsibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}