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Clothes maker to invest in Kenya cotton farming

03/01/2012

New Wide Group, which operates three garment manufacturing companies in the Athi River Export Processing Zone (EPZ), has announced that it will invest $7 million in 2012 to support cotton farming in Kenya.

In addition, New Wide Garments, the Kenyan subsidiary, will also be setting up a cotton ginning unit in Kisumu town to strengthen the ongoing efforts of the government to revive the country’s cotton industry.

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