As on 1 January, 2015, a total of 13.958 million bales of cotton arrived at various ginneries in Pakistan, crossing the previous season’s total cotton production of 13.391 million bales. Cotton arrival increased by 10.16 per cent ...
Tags: Cotton Output, Apparel
Abdu Bulama, minister of science and technology in the Nigerian government spoke about creating a strong partnership between his ministry and Mosanto, a producer of Bt cotton seeds. This will help in reviving the declining cotton industry ...
The Nigerian government has approved a policy which aims to revive the country’s ailing textile and garment industry. The policy is a part of the National Industry Revolution Plan (NIRP) which covers the whole textile value chain, ...
Tags: funding and energy, smuggling, Textile
The third meeting of Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC) kept its estimate for the cotton crop season 2014-15 unchanged from the previous meeting at 13.488 million bales. At the meeting, chaired by Amir Marwat, secretary, Ministry ...
Devkinandan Corporation LLP, one of the promoters of Ahmedabad-based and second biggest Indian producer of denim fabrics, Nandan Denim, said in a filing that, it has hiked its stake in the company. First on December 18, Devkinandan ...
The Prime Minster of Egypt, Ibrahim Mehleb, recently held meetings to discuss the issues of the cotton and textile industry, and announced that the Egyptian Government has decided to support the revival of the textile sector, Daily News ...
Tags: Cotton Textile, textile industry, Textile
Indian synthetic fibre and yarn producers have urged the Union Ministry of Finance to abolish excise duty of 12 per cent levied on the industry and bring it at par with the cotton fibre and yarn sector. “This will help the growth of ...
Tags: cotton fibre, yarn sector, Textile
A joint memorandum has been submitted to the Union Commerce Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman by various Indian textile associations, seeking additional two years time to fulfill export obligation under the export promotion capital goods (EPCG) ...
Tags: textile associations, Textile
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF), Oman, has started to restore the local cotton variety farming in Oman and aims to cultivate up to 120 acres of land in the next few years, Muscatdaily.com reported. The revival project ...
Tags: raw material, cotton cultivation, Textile
The textile industry of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu aspires to climb up the textile value chain and realise its true potential for which it is depending upon the central government, said an official of a trade body. D Prabhu, ...
The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) in a statement said it has deferred till further orders the procedure it had mandated earlier, to export organic cotton made textiles. Earlier, the DGFT had mandated a December 18, 2014 ...
Balavigna Weaving Mills, an India-based manufacturer and exporter of woven fabrics comprising organic cotton and blended materials, is going to showcase its latest products at the upcoming Heimtextil trade fair in Germany. Heimtextil ...
Tags: organic cotton, blended materials, Textile
“Degradable natural fibres have an advantage over synthetics when it comes to the environment. Having said that, there are developments in the pipeline to aid the environmental sustainability of synthetics,” the head of a full ...
Tags: synthetics, wool, cashmere, alpaca, Textile
According to CEPEA/ESALQ, most companies continue to refrain from closing new cotton trades due to the nearness of Christmas vacation. Only a few players are operating in this end-of-the-year period in the Brazilian cotton market, it ...
Tags: Christmas vacation, cotton market, Textile
The American PC antivirus software maker Norton has joined hands with Beatbrand to create a new line of wearable technology clothing that can prevent virtual identity theft. The collection incorporates silver-based Radio frequency ...
Tags: technology clothing, passport, credit card details, Apparel