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Agriculture ## Hope and Hardship in the Cotton Fields In August 2013, after an eight-hour ride through the mountains from Lusaka, I arrived at the headquarters of China-Africa Cotton (CAC) in Chipata, Eastern Province of Zambia. There, I was amazed to see mountains of cotton piled on the ground, dozens of trucks stationed in a large area, and ginning machines roaring in the factories. It was toward the end of the harvest season. Several dusty trucks entered the gate with a full load of packed cotton. Snow-white cotton shreds were scattered along the red dirt road behind them. The general manager of CAC, Shi Jingran, who was about fifty years old and used to be the head of a textile mill in Shandong province, told me that the firm had already become the second largest cotton buyer in Eastern Zambia, with purchases of more than 11,000 metric tons of cotton from the local contracted farmers in 2013. However, the main shareholder of the company, China-Africa Development Fund (CADF), was not satisfied. They set a goal of purchasing 35,000 tons of cotton in the following year. To increase the production of cotton and attract more farmers, CAC installed machines imported from China to del

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN