Zimbabwe: Cotton Farmers, Buyers Deadlocked Over Price

Local cotton farmers and merchants reached a deadlock over this year's minimum cotton producer price last Friday and were due to meet the Government to help break the impasse, an official said.

Buyers are offering US35c per kilogramme for the lowest grade while farmers are demanding as much as US50c per kg, one of the negotiators, who asked not to be named, said in an interview last Friday.