The Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) has launched a cotton seed milling equipment at Luanda cotton ginnery in Samia Sub County in Busia to help in value addition as a way of boosting cotton farming and profit to the farmers.
The machine which cost Sh500,000 will enhance the value of cotton through value addition by processing of cotton seeds to cotton oil and seed cake.
Speaking during the launch of the machine at Muluanda cotton ginnery on Monday, the Director General of AFA Dr Bruno Linyiru stated that the installation of the machine will result in an increase in price of seed cotton due to the increased number of the outcome products. "The increase in value addition activities will enhance the farm gate price of seed cotton by an estimated 8-11%.
This is because there will be three products derived from processing of seed cotton; lint, oil and seed cake.
