(MENAFN) With the impacts of coronavirus, cotton output has decreased in Malawi.
More than 10,000 farmers in the country have given up cotton output in the current year because of scarcity in loans and the past year's poor market prices impacted by coronavirus, said experts.
The activity has been going up and down for years, stated Charles Zalimba, 44, who plants cotton since 2004, but the conditions deteriorated in the past year because he produced so much cotton but he sold it at a cheaper price.
In spite of an abundant crop, a lot of cotton purchasers did not come because of coronavirus precautionary procedures which had limited traveling into the country for them. Zalimba fears that the trend may carry on in 2021 marketing season, he noted.
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