Kenya’s Kisumu National Polytechnic will build centres of excellence across the region to offer skills and competencies to support the cotton sector’s growth and sustainability. The company has received Sh1.2 billion funding from the World Bank to these centres for value addition in the cotton industry in the Nyanza region. The project is expected to start next month. The first centre will start at Nyakongo Technical Training in Rarieda sub-county.

These centres will focus on different levels of value addition chain, from production of high quality seeds to fashion industry, said principal secretary in the state department for vocational and technical training.