Ethiopia’s cotton ambitions thwarted by El Niño
05/02/2016
Ethiopia’s Textile Industry Development Institute (ETIDI) has said that drought prevented the country’s cotton farmers from producing as much cotton as they hoped in 2015. They had a target of 262,000 hectares but in the end the land dedicated to the cotton crop was only 65,000 hectares. ETIDI blamed the weather effects of El Niño for at least...