updated: 12.05.08
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Cotton Sub-sector Development Project

The project was an expansion of the Smallholders Cotton Rehabilitation Project and was designed to rehabilitate the cotton sub-sector throughout the country. Its objectives included:

  • restructuring the regulatory and policy framework for cotton pricing, processing and marketing, rehabilitating ginneries and improving cotton processing and handling
  • improving support services such as national research programmes and extension services
  • providing credit to farmers
Source: IFAD

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Contact information
Ms Marian Bradley
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592326
Fax: +39 0654593326
m.bradley@ifad.org
Facts and figures

Total cost: US$31.4 million

IFAD loan: US$12.5 million

Duration: 1994-2001


Geographical area: all cotton-growing areas in Uganda


Directly benefiting: 50,000 households

Status: closed