Embrace entrepreneurship, farmers urged

LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has urged cotton farmers to transform their operations into business entities.

Speaking at the World Cotton Day commemoration yesterday, Masuka said there was need to value-add cotton farming

“Let us be philosophical, yet practical, about our approach. It is agricultural development that will cause rural industrialisation and it is rural industrialisation that will power rural development and rural development will facilitate the attainment of Vision 2030,” he said

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