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Assume that the Foschini Group (TFG) apparel selling division visited potential

small local producer of T-shirts to inspect their equipment and craftmanship to

ensure that the garment quality is up to standard. Upon investigation, the

visiting group was pleasantly surprised that a potential small producer is

buying exclusively from a fabric mill who in turn only buys from a group of

small-scale cotton farmers. The cotton farmers working on four farms use two

newly acquired

, which were locally designed and built and procured with the help of

Cotton SA and SA’s Technology Innovation Agency, and donated to two separate

cooperatives.

the small-scale cotton farmers have in

the supply chain scenario?