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Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00   Cissy Zhou

Xinjiang cotton ban uncertainties weigh on Chinese farmers, smaller textile firms

Mr Zhang runs a cotton-processing plant in the middle of Xinjiang province. Every year, from September to November, he purchases raw cotton locally and processes it into ginned cotton – separating the seeds and the fibres – and then sells it to traders and yarn plants. And as a member of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) for more than five years, his business in Yuli county has benefited quite a lot from the Switzerland-based network.However, while Zhang, who would only give his surname, was…

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