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We must not lose the ‘Cotton Opportunity’

The new Bt cotton variety does not require a lot of water, has an in-built pest control mechanism and matures in four months.

 

A big opportunity has been brought forward by the new improved Bt cotton seed. This is the second chance that cotton is giving Kenya, after the collapse of the industry in the early 1990s.

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