In its first estimate for the upcoming season beginning October 2015, the Cotton Association of India (CAI) has pegged the country's cotton production at 380 lakh bales, almost unchanged from the current year's output of 382-383 lakh bales ...
Tags: cotton supply, cotton output
The Ministry of Trade and Industry of Ghana will begin the task of restructuring the apparel industry to attract investors, and build a sustainable source of foreign exchange inflows. As a part of the revamping process, the Ministry plans ...
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Pakistani Food Minister Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan has said that scientists must pay attention to the scourge of the leaf curl virus disease that has been causing colossal loss of two to three million bales of cotton every year. His comments ...
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Retail major Spencer's plans to add about 2.75 lakh square feet of trading area and take their number of hypermarkets to 132 this financial year from the current 120 in 35 cities across India, according to media reports. As part of the ...
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The Maharashtra government has in-principle accepted a new ambitious and comprehensive textile policy that envisages setting up of textile hubs at an investment of Rs 80,000 crore in five years, according to media reports. BJP MLA ...
US automotive giant General Motors (GM) will join forces with its Chinese partner Shanghai Automotive Industry (SAIC) to develop a line of Chevrolet vehicles to cater to fast-growing emerging markets, pumping in $5bn over the next several ...
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British casual wear brand Crew Clothing has launched a store expansion programme after reporting a 12 per cent rise in sales last year, according to media reports. Sales grew by £6.5 million ($10 million) for the year ending 26 ...
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India's leading e-commerce firm, Flipkart, has launched 20 stores in 10 cities to let its customers collect the items they ordered online at their convenience, according to media reports. The service has been launched in collaboration ...
Khadi sales have jumped after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call last October advocating the need for use of such products, micro small and medium enterprises (MSME) minister Kalraj Mishra has said, according to media reports. "Khadi ...
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Exports of cotton from India to China fell to 26 lakh bales in financial year 2014-15, showing a sharp fall of 56.72 per cent compared to 61 lakh bales exported in the previous financial year, according to the Indian Government. The lower ...
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Close to 100 textile mills that make synthetic yarn in Tamil Nadu stopped production on Saturday (July 18), as part of the decision taken at a meeting of the synthetic spinners group of Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) in Coimbatore last ...
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Beginning next year, the textile industry in Taiwan will have to mandatorily take energy conservation measures, as per a directive of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA), according to local media reports. In its effort to improve ...
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Heavy ceremonial robes traditionally worn during convocations in universities may soon become a thing of the past with the University Grants Commission (UGC) asking universities to consider using handloom fabric for ceremonial dresses ...
Around 90 textile spinning mills, located in Tamil Nadu, will reduce their production of synthetic yarn by shutting down their units for two-days-a-week beginning tomorrow, according to media reports. The decision to stop production on ...
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Alibaba.com, the world’s largest e-commerce company, has launched a reseller platform in India in a bid to muscle its way to a larger share of the country’s e-commerce market, according to media reports. A reseller is a ...
Tags: textile manufacture, Alibaba.com, apparel, handicrafts