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After decades of decline, Kenya's cotton industry is growing again, helping farmers pay for school fees and build better futures. Small-scale farmers across Busia are replanting fields that once sat empty, betting on a crop that could transform their communities.
A Kenyan farmer who grew cotton to pay for his own education is now sending his children to university with the same crop. Despite small plots and equipment challenges, cotton is quietly transforming lives in Busia County.
Women cotton farmers in eastern Uganda are selling directly to ginneries, cutting out village middlemen who underpaid them and used faulty scales. The shift is turning seasonal cotton earnings into iron-roofed homes, education, and productive assets.
Widows in coastal Kenya are rebuilding their lives with a pest-resistant cotton that triples harvests and brings home steady income. What was once a dying industry now employs 15,000 farmers and produces 60% of the nation's cotton.
Western Australia's newest cotton gin just wrapped its first season, keeping 81,000 bales and millions of dollars in the local economy. Farmers in the remote Kimberley region no longer have to ship their crops 3,500 kilometers away for processing.
