Cotton also is an important crop for more than 300.000 small scale families, and about 96% of cotton seed come from small scale farm and 3,7% from farmer association and 0.3% form private sector and it counts number 6 on the export rank of all export products. In addition, 10 professional companies have cotton as their core business and create over 20.000 employments throughout it value chain, namely seasonal and permanent workers