{"id":29904,"date":"2020-10-09T05:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=29904"},"modified":"2020-10-09T05:12:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:12:20","slug":"world-cotton-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/world-cotton-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cotton Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>World Cotton Day is celebrated on 7th October to celebrate the advantages of cotton, ranging from its qualities as a natural fibre to the benefits people obtain from its production, transformation, trade and consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>At the initiative of the Cotton-4 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali), the WTO hosted on 7 October 2019 the launch of World Cotton Day in collaboration with the secretariats of the UN FAO UNCTAD, the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cotton is discussed at the WTO on two tracks: 1) the trade reforms needed to address subsidies and high trade barriers for cotton, and 2) the assistance provided to the cotton sector in developing countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These various tracks of discussion have been developed over the years as a response to a series of proposals to address the sector tabled by four African countries \u2014 Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali \u2014 known as the Cotton Four or C4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Cotton Day is celebrated on 7th October to celebrate the advantages of cotton, ranging from its qualities as a natural fibre to the benefits people obtain from its production, transformation, trade and consumption. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points At the initiative of the Cotton-4 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali), the WTO hosted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":29905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[99],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-29904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2020","tag-days-events-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29906,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29904\/revisions\/29906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29904"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=29904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}