Benin wants to produce one million tons of cotton during the 2023-2024 campaign to maintain its rank as the best African producer.

In an announcement made by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Gaston Dossouhoui, we learn that the Beninese government is planning a record production of one million tons of seed cotton during the 2023 campaign. 2024. “With the production forecasts announced for this 2021-2022 campaign estimated at more than 766,000 tonnes, slightly up on the previous campaign, we are getting closer each campaign to our production target of one million tonnes of seed cotton” during the 2023-2024 campaign, he said on the occasion of the launch of the 2021-2022 cotton marketing campaign. To achieve this objective, he continued, the government has authorized the acquisition and deployment of agricultural equipment at reduced costs by the National Agricultural Mechanization Company for the implementation of the national program of agricultural mechanization. to improve cultivation methods and crop productivity.