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This paper analyzes and compares the structure of cotton by-products industries in selected countries (Uganda, Tanzania … feedstocks for biofuels is unlikely to become a new source of growth for the cotton oil market. Third, within the context of … deepening the on-going reform efforts in West and Central African countries, cotton by-products should be taken into …
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This study investigates the effects of climate change and internet access on cotton yield disparities between African … nations and other cotton-producing countries from 1995 to 2019. Utilizing econometric analysis based on a decomposition model …, the findings reveal that African countries underperform relative to their counterparts in cotton yields. The study …
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in India and China; (b) the cotton prices in India also impacts the cotton prices in China as we report a unidirectional …This study examines the price transmission between cotton prices in U.S., Indian, and Chinese futures markets. We focus … indicate the following: (a) the U.S. cotton futures market continues to be the most dominant market, and it leads price changes …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has severely changed the world economy and jeopardized the implementation of Sustainable …
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Developed countries (LDCs) (such as African countries), which are being supported by all the World Trade Organisation …
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toward the end of 2010). Yet, between 2000-04 and 2005-09 world cotton production increased 13 percent. This paper …During the past decade, cotton prices remained considerably below other agricultural prices (although they recovered … conjectures that biotechnology-induced productivity improvements increased supplies by China and India, which, in addition to …
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Cotton, Tanzania's second largest crop after coffee, was introduced at the turn of the century by German settlers as a …. By 1966, production reached 80,000 tons, or 0.75 percent of world production of 10.7 million tons …
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The value of world cotton production in 2000-01 has been estimated at about $20 billion, down from $35 billion in 1996 …-97 when cotton prices were 50 percent higher. Although cotton's share in world merchandise trade is insignificant (about 0 ….12 percent), it is very important to a number of developing countries. Cotton accounts for approximately 40 percent of total …
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