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State pegs hope on Bt cotton to revive sector

Modern cotton spinning equipment at Rift Valley Textiles (RIVATEX) in Eldoret. [Kevin Tonui, Standard]

Early this week, President William Ruto waved a new cotton price card to farmers in Busia county in a drive aimed to win back the growers who had abandoned the crop.

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