How JOC Textile has helped cotton farmers in Shinyanga

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Cotton farmers in the Lake Zone areas continue to have reasons to smile after securing market for their produce and benefiting from capacity training which allow them to improve their products to the quality needed by processors. The reason is the benefit brought to farmers since the cotton processing firm the JOC Textile Tanzania Company Limited (JOC) started its operations in the year 2014/15. The firm is located at Kizimbu ward in Shinyanga municipal about ten kilo-meters to Shinyanga town.

Mentioning some of them Kyruzi name Nyanza Cotton Oil Company Ltd, Fresho Investment Company Ltd, Kahama Oil Mills Ltd, Afrisian Ginning Ltd, GAKI, Birchand (Kahama Cotton), Aham Invest-ment Company Ltd and Vitrics Oil Mills Ltd. He then said that JOC textile bought cotton from those ginners in various season cotton. Even though he said in the pre-vious cotton season 2018/19 they bought cotton from two ginners only due to their need in the time being. According to him he said they bought around 4,000 tons of cotton lint in that season. He then pointed out that if their firm will have to work at full capacity it can accommodate in process at least 10 per cent of cotton produced in the country each year. Cotton is among the major cash crops in Tanzania and it is only grown in Tanzania Mainland.

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How JOC Textile has helped cotton farmers in Shinyanga

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