BURKINA FASO: US to continue with cotton subsidies
[Nov 16, 2007] The US deputy secretary of state, John Negroponte, has said that US will reduce subsidies on its giant cotton industry as long as the European Union does. The US is the world's second largest producer of cotton after China, producing some 40% of cotton on world markets.
BURKINA FASO: Cotton producers celebrate WTO ruling
[Oct 18, 2007] Cotton industry officials in Burkina Faso are celebrating a ruling by the World Trade Organization (WTO) that US government subsidies to cotton farmers there undermine free trade. Burkina Faso is Africa's largest cotton producing nation.
BURKINA FASO: Lower cotton output to slow down economic growth
[Oct 06, 2007] According to the International Monetory Fund report, Burkina Faso's economic growth rate is set to tumble this year to 4.25 percent from last year's 5.7 percent due to sharply lower cotton output. The general annual rate of inflation
BURKINA FASO: West Africa's cotton industry to collapse
[Apr 10, 2007] West Africa's all-important cotton industry is on the brink of collapse due to four years of falling prices on the world market...
BURKINA FASO: Monsanto and Syngenta to be permitted to expand testing of GM cotton
MEM [Sep 25, 2006] Two foreign agro-industrial companies will be permitted to expand testing of genetically modified (GM) cotton during the 2006/07 farming season...
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