Mali: Selected Issues
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Summary:
The cotton sector in Mali is facing major challenges to overcome, with low export prices, technical hurdles, and a poorly performing state-owned cotton ginner. Some reforms, most notably with regard to the setting of the farmgate procurement price, have already been undertaken, but more is needed to put the sector on a sound financial footing. It is vital that the production process be modernized and the ginner profoundly reformed if cotton is to play a major role in poverty reduction in rural Mali.
Series:
Country Report No. 2008/286
Subject:
Agricultural commodities Business environment Commodities Economic sectors Environment Gold Mining sector Natural resources
English
Publication Date:
August 15, 2008
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451826517/1934-7685
Stock No:
1MLIEA2008005
Pages:
32
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