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Timberland helps reintroduce cotton crop in Haiti

31/08/2017

Outdoor brand Timberland has partnered with the Smallholder Farmers Alliance (SFA) and the Haitian minister of commerce and industry, Pierre Marie Du Mény, on a project to reintroduce cotton as an anchor crop in Haiti.  It will bring the crop back to the country after a 30-year absence in a move that it is hoped will revitalise farming in the...

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