Thursday, July 26, 2007

Asian, African rubber growers swap knowledge, plants

(Reuters) - The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) said on Wednesday it would launch $1.6 million project to help rubber farmers in Ivory Coast, Cameroon and Ghana improve their incomes through training and the planting of other crops.

Experts from the Netherlands-based intergovernmental institution, which aims to improve conditions for smallholders through better revenues, held a two-day seminar with rubber industry officials from these three states in Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan this week.


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