Cotton growers of Cameroon have sold 221,000 tons of cotton in the market during the crop season 2012-13, according to Cameroon National Confederation of Cotton Producers (CNPCC). The amount of cotton brought by farmers to the market ...
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Yesterday's end of day price on Cotton #2 futures for March contracts was 86 cents. The price on May contracts was 87 cents. Today's Cotlook A Index, a basket of prices from the world's major cotton-producing regions, was 93 cents.
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The Government of Mozambique, through its Ministry of Agriculture, has initiated an insurance programme for cotton growers in districts of Monapo and Lalaua – the two main cotton producing districts. The programme has been ...
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Clyde Sharp, a Roll, AZ, cotton producer, was re-elected as chairman of the American Cotton Producers (ACP) of the National Cotton Council for 2013, during the NCC’s annual meeting here on February 8-10. Sharp, who has served on and ...
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Cotton Australia is working with state and local authorities to help Queensland grower’s access emergency flood relief, while the banking sector has also stepped up to offer relief packages. Recent flooding has impacted much of ...
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India is likely to produce 32.5 million cotton bales of 170 kg each during the current crop year 2012-13, according to the estimates released by the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF), formerly known as South India Cotton Association. ...
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Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has started procurement of Kappas from Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Karnataka in addition to Andhra Pradesh where they have already procured approximately 7 lakh bales of 170 kgs bls. As per reports, they ...
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The ability to spin a good yarn recently kept an international team of researchers focused on Gossypium raimondii,the simplest cotton genome.The researchers,including Jeremy Schmutz,faculty investigator at HudsonAlpha and head of the plant ...
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Just like the one adopted for cotton imports, the Centre should also have “open policy” for cotton exports, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said adding that this could benefit the cotton growers and the textile ...
A two-fold rise in Uganda’s cotton production during last fiscal indicates that the cotton sector of the country is on the path of revival. Cotton production grew from 147,000 bales in 2010-11 to 254,036 bales during last ...
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Despite the estimated decline in cotton arrivals in Indian markets by about 12 percent, the Indian Government has assured that it would not stop the export of cotton to Bangladesh, says Mr. Jahangir Alamin, president of Bangladesh Textile ...
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SODECOTON, the Cotton Development Company of Cameroon, said it foresees a further rise in its raw cotton output during next 2012-13 season, a press release stated. Iya Mohamed, General Manager, SODECOTON said as compared 2011-12’s ...
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Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has asked farmers to speed up the process of cotton harvesting, so it gets completed in time and without loss. Cotton harvesting, which began in late August, is slated to continue till ...
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Helena Helmersson, Head of Sustainability for Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) announces that H&M is extending its All for Children collaboration with UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, to include Bangladesh. In total H&M will contribute ...
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — November 8, 2012 — H&M was the biggest user of organic cotton worldwide in the second consecutive year in 2011, according to Textile Exchange's latest Global Sustainable Textiles Market Report. H&M continued ...
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