In Burkina Faso, the Société Burkinabè des Fibres Textiles (SOFITEX) decided to get directly involved in cotton farming. In a statement published on August 24 on its Facebook page, the company said it had acquired an estate of around 1000 hectares in the Samandéni Valley, located in the west of the country, in order to start

SOFITEX decided to produce cotton itself, exclusively for its own needs. In partnership with the Samendéni Valley Integrated Development Programme, it acquired an estate with an area of approximately 1,000 hectares

This new orientation comes at a time when production in the cotton sector in Burkina is in decline. The weighings on 1 April 2025 for the 2024-2025 cotton season are estimated at 283,622 tonnes, i.e.

Note that SOFITEX only had seed production fields. It provides producers with the inputs (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides) and the technical support they need to grow cotton