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Watch a Video – Springbok Flats dryland cotton from the air January 2017
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Watch a Video – Springbok Flats irrigated cotton from the air January 2017
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Watch a Video – Cotton planting time on the Springbok Flats – 2 December 2016
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A Sustainable Cotton Industry
To advance South Africa to an environmentally responsible future, the cotton industry is continuing with the development and implementation of new technologies and methods of cotton production and manufacturing, and developing new uses for the cotton plant that will result in meeting consumer needs and to balance productivity and profit, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. ...
The results are in – Fuel from cottonseed is feasible
The Sustainable Cotton Cluster is an initiative of Cotton SA, Government and like-minded cotton industry value chain stakeholders. It creates an enabling environment for cotton producers and manufacturers to supply local and international customers with fully traceable and sustainable cotton products. One of its aims is to promote research and development in the cotton industry.
Over the past year or so, researchers at the Northwest University (NWU) in Potchefstroom have been doing pioneering research funded by the Sustainable Cotton Cluster. Their work is part of the Cluster’s research and development mandate to develop cotton by-products that will increase the industry’s overall sustainability. Currently, no beneficiation of cottonseed oil and/or bio paraffin manufacturing is being done in South Africa.
Prof Sanette Marx and her team were contracted to ...
