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Mozambique becomes CmiA’s sixth project country
Farmers in Mozambique are the latest to join the Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) initiative.
According to the CmiA, 75,000 smallholder cotton farmers in the country will join and take part in the initiative.
Mozambique will become the sixth project country and like the others, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Malawai and Zambia, is amongst the poorest and least developed countries in the world.
The CmiA aims to help people ‘help themselves’ through trade in a bid to break the circle of poverty and improve the living conditions of over 400,000 smallholder farmers in the six African countries.
Christoph Kaut, managing director of the CmiA, said: “Our goal is to fight poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. With the addition of smallholder farmers and their families in Mozambique, our work now reaches a total of over 2.6 million people and will produce an estimated 160,000 tons of ginned cotton this year.
“This means that around 15% of all cotton produced in sub-Saharan Africa is already being sustainably cultivated in accordance with the CmiA standards.”
