From Fibre 2 Fashion
A delegation representing the raw cotton industry in East and South Africa is on a business visit to Vietnam, one of the biggest Asian apparel exporters to explore opportunities to export more cotton to the country.
Cotton fabric. (Photo by Chien-min Chung/Getty Images)
Between Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda around 450,000 tons of cotton is grown per annum.
Since consumption of cotton is limited in the region, most of it is exported, which makes it a good source to import cotton.
In 2013, Vietnam imported around 581,000 tons of raw cotton amounting to US $1.17 billion, a steep rise of 39.1 per cent from 2012. This cotton came mainly from India, US, Brazil, Australia, Pakistan and Ivory Coast.
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