Designers inject life into cotton

Farmers from Kanyagwal village in Nyando constituency Kisumu county receive cotton seeds from Pamba Mali co-coordinator Lucy Rao (Holding yellow container). More than 2,000 farmers who have shown intrest in cotton farming received the seeds. [PHOTO: COLLINS ODUOR/STANDARD]

In the 1980s, the textile industry was doing well. But thanks to influx of ‘mitumba’ clothes and an array of issues, it started declining in the mid 1980s.

That is why farmers abandoned cotton growing. But a group of designers are determined to revive the industry by giving cotton farmers a reason to plant the crop.