Meru Ginnery could get a new Lease of life following fresh efforts to boost cotton production. It is set to get Sh53.2 million from the world bank-funded matching grant fund programme seeking to revitalise the cotton sub-sector by uplifting more than 5,000 cotton growers technical know-how and double production to 800kgs/ acre. Other ginneries that have benefited from the programme are Mwea and Makueni. Although Meru and Tharaka ginneries have capacity of eight million kilogrammes of seed cotton per season, only one million was ginned last year.
When the farmers embarked on cotton production in 1970's, production was as high as 1,000 kgs/ acre.
Agricultural experts say a well grown rainfed acre of cotton can produce upto 1,200 kilos.
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