{"id":54569,"date":"2021-10-07T06:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T06:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=54569"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:45:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T06:15:18","slug":"world-cotton-day-07-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/world-cotton-day-07-october\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cotton Day: 07 October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The globe marks&nbsp;World&nbsp;Cotton&nbsp;Day&nbsp;on October 7th every year since 2019. The international day aims 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. WCD Day was initiated by the Group of Cotton-4 countries namely&nbsp;Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad,<strong> and Mali<\/strong>&nbsp;to reflect the importance of cotton as a global commodity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World&nbsp;Cotton&nbsp;Day&nbsp;also strives to emphasize the problems that the&nbsp;world\u2019s&nbsp;cotton&nbsp;economies experience, as&nbsp;cotton&nbsp;is important for the&nbsp;world\u2019s least developed, emerging, and developed economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>History of the day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative of World Cotton Day was born in&nbsp;<strong>2019,<\/strong>&nbsp;when four cotton producers in sub-Saharan Africa\u2013 Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, known as the Cotton Four -proposed the&nbsp;<strong>World Trade Organization<\/strong>&nbsp;a World Cotton Day celebration on&nbsp;<strong>October 7.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The globe marks&nbsp;World&nbsp;Cotton&nbsp;Day&nbsp;on October 7th every year since 2019. The international day aims 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. WCD Day was initiated by the Group of Cotton-4 countries namely&nbsp;Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali&nbsp;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":54571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[99,1989],"class_list":["post-54569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-days-events-current-affairs","tag-world-cotton-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569","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\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115333,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54569\/revisions\/115333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}