Mali hopes to cotton on to 追加するd value
Dyed in the wool: Cotton supports a ４半期/4分の1 of the 全住民 of Mali, which has retaken the 肩書を与える of Africa's cotton 支持する／優勝者
For five months straight the farm 手渡すs in the Malian village of Siby walk out together to the cotton fields, a clean 解雇（する） in 手渡す, for a long day of the meticulous work of 選ぶing the 刈る.
In this field not far from the 国境 with Guinea, several teams are out from daybreak to sunset, the first link in a 全世界の 生産／産物 chain that takes the cotton from the 農園 to 消費者s.
"For each ヘクタール, we 投資する more than 100,000 CFA フランs (around 150 euros, $170) and after the 収穫 we can recoup that 投資 and have 150,000 CFA フランs in 利益（をあげる）," said the owner of the field, Daouda Camara.
Political and 経済的な leaders 公然と bemoan that Mali, like other African 生産者s, only 過程s a tiny fraction of its 生産／産物
"But we need the cotton to be of good 質," he 追加するd.
With 記録，記録的な／記録する 生産／産物 of more than 700,000 tonnes the past two seasons, Mali has retaken the t itle of Africa's cotton 支持する／優勝者. The 刈る supports four million people, a ４半期/4分の1 of the 全住民.
The 最新の season, which runs from November to March, has just ended, but the cotton 産業 isn't 残り／休憩（する）ing on the laurels of its 最新の success.
The cotton 農業者s 連合 始める，決める an ambitious 客観的な of raising 生産（高） to one million tonnes next season at its 最新の 会合, which was at …に出席するd by 総理大臣 Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga before he 辞職するd this week over his 政府's 扱うing of 暴力／激しさ in the centre of the country.
可能性のある 投資家s 目的（とする）ing to transform cotton in Mali 直面する a 一連の 障害s 含むing high energy costs, a 欠如（する） of trained 労働者s, and a small 国内の market
But political and 経済的な leaders also 公然と bemoan that Mali, like other African 生産者s, only 過程s a tiny fraction of its 生産／産物. Most of the cotton is 輸出（する）d raw.
大統領 Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, at a 最近の 会議／協議会 on 現れるing African nations, lamented that Mali 過程s only two パーセント of its cotton. "Pitiful! Shameful!" he told attendees.
The 協会 of African cotton growers called on him to help 納得させる others leaders to 上げる the 過程ing of raw cotton into 織物s ーするために 逮捕（する） more of the 追加するd value.
- Inputs: fertiliser and credit -
The 役割 of the 明言する／公表する in supporting the cotton 産業 is already かなりの, 特に 経由で the 明言する／公表する-owned Malian 織物 開発 Company (CMDT), which buys cotton from 農業者s.
Camara said cotton 農業者s 利益 from subsidised fertiliser, unlike 農業者s of other 刈るs. They also have easier 接近 to credit.
施設s which take the tufts of cotton and spin them into yarn, let alone weave the yarn into cloth, are rare in Mali
"With cotton farming the returns from a good season 許す us to get good 器具／備品," he said.
The CMDT has made 進歩 in 最近の years in getting value out of byproducts of separating the cotton fibre from seeds.
"Ten years ago the cotton seeds would rot in the 中庭 of the CMDT," said Bakary Togola, 長，率いる of the APCAM 協会 which 部隊s 農業者s' organisations across the nation.
"Today, there are 施設s which transform the cotton seeds into oil," he said, even if there are not enough yet.
But even rarer are 施設s which take the tufts of cotton and spin them into yarn, let alone weave the yarn into cloth, steps in the 生産／産物 chain where there is more 経済的な value to 逮捕（する）.
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専門家s in the 部門 say 可能性のある 投資家s 目的（とする）ing to transform cotton in Mali 直面する a 一連の 障害s 含むing high energy costs, a 欠如（する） of trained 労働者s, and a small 国内の market.
One only has to look at the Mali 織物 Company, also known as Comatex. Created in 1968, the Mali 明言する／公表する only now 持つ／拘留するs a 20 パーセント 火刑／賭ける with 80 パーセント in the 手渡すs of the 中国 Overseas 工学 Group (COVEC), to see it is 堅い going.
Its factory in the central city of Segou is the only one in the country to 過程 cotton fr om the beginning to end.
"We transform the cotton from CMDT into thread, yarn to be woven, unbleached cloth, printed cloth," said Issa Sangare, Comatex's 副 CEO.
Yet the 会社／堅い is 直面するing 厳しい 財政上の difficulties.
"The market is flooded with 輸入するd 織物s that are cheaper," he said.
