{"id":7921,"date":"2019-08-28T08:01:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/aug\/28\/primark-to-train-cotton-farmers-environmentally-friendly-methods"},"modified":"2019-08-28T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T23:01:24","slug":"primark-to-train-160000-cotton-farmers-in-sustainability-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7921","title":{"rendered":"Primark to train 160,000 cotton farmers in sustainability drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retailer\u2019s target is part of aim to use 100% sustainable cotton in all product categories<\/p>\n<p>Primark has announced plans to improve its sustainability credentials by training 160,000 cotton farmers in India, Pakistan and China in environmentally friendly farming methods by 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The target is part of the retailer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.primark.com\/en\/our-ethics\/planet\/sourcing-raw-materials\/a\/fe47c587-6a9c-4a97-ad5c-a01ff1984f28\">sustainable <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primark.com\/en\/our-ethics\/planet\/sourcing-raw-materials\/a\/fe47c587-6a9c-4a97-ad5c-a01ff1984f28\">cotton <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.primark.com\/en\/our-ethics\/planet\/sourcing-raw-materials\/a\/fe47c587-6a9c-4a97-ad5c-a01ff1984f28\">programme<\/a>, launched in 2013, with the aim to use 100% sustainable cotton in all its product categories.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/aug\/28\/primark-to-train-cotton-farmers-environmentally-friendly-methods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailer\u2019s target is part of aim to use 100% sustainable cotton in all product categoriesPrimark has announced plans to improve its sustainability credentials by training 160,000 cotton farmers in India, Pakistan and China in environmentally friendly f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,65,653,60,651,335,61,463,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-environment","category-farming","category-pakistan","category-primark","category-retail-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sustainable-development","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7921\/revisions\/7923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}