The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe, is a large

cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...

processing and marketing organization in

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. The company, known as "COTTCO", works with individual cotton

farmers A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer mi ...

, providing agronomic and financial support. Cottco is listed on the

Zimbabwe Stock Exchange The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, or ZSE, is the official stock exchange of Zimbabwe. Its history dates back to 1896 but has only been open to foreign investment since 1993. The exchange has about a dozen members, and currently lists 63 equities. The ...

and its

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, the

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. Its

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s are located in

Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan ...

. Cotton, export internationally via COTTCO, is one of the larger generators of foreign currency for Zimbabwe.

External links

The Cotton Company of ZimbabweCOTTCO's stock data at LiquidAfrica

References

Companies listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Companies in the Zimbabwe Industrial Index Agriculture companies of Zimbabwe Cotton organizations 1994 establishments in Zimbabwe Companies based in Harare Zimbabwean companies established in 1994 {{Zimbabwe-company-stub