{"id":153274,"date":"2026-06-21T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153274"},"modified":"2026-06-21T06:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T06:00:05","slug":"how-benin-is-on-the-road-to-reshaping-its-cotton-industry-with-chinas-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153274","title":{"rendered":"How Benin is on the road to reshaping its cotton industry, with China\u2019s help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor decades, moving Benin\u2019s cotton harvest from the north of the country to its southern ports was a slow, difficult journey along unpaved roads.<br \/>\nBenin is Africa\u2019s largest cotton producer, but it lacked the infrastructure needed to connect its northern cotton-growing belt to the coast and processing plants in the Glo-Djigb\u00e9 Industrial Zone (GDIZ) near Cotonou, the country\u2019s largest city and economic capital.<br \/>\nThe GDIZ \u2013 part of the government\u2019s efforts to end raw cotton exports \u2013 now processes a&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3357810\/how-benin-road-reshaping-its-cotton-industry-chinas-help?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFor decades, moving Benin\u2019s cotton harvest from the north of the country to its southern ports was a slow, difficult journey along unpaved roads.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153274"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}