The textile industry has been pleading to the Government to direct Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to offload the cotton to the domestic textile mills to maintain the stability in cotton prices. Unfortunately, it has been reported that ...
Tags: textile value, textile, Cotton
The domestic cotton prices for the major variety of cotton viz., Sankar-6 has been stable from the beginning of the current cotton season (from October 2012) ruling at Rs.33, 500/- per candy of 355 kgs till the middle of February 2013. The ...
Tags: SIMA, Cotton, Textile Mills
In cotton season 2012-13, seed kapas prices in Andhra Pradesh fell below the MSP prices. Ministry of Textiles in consultation with State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the Cotton Corporation of India put in place an effective mechanism ...
Sustenance of conducive business environment for the textile industry is the need of hour with respect to cotton policies, said Mr. S Dinakaran, Chairman of The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA). SIMA Chief has said that after ...
Tags: SIMA, CCI, Cotton Prices
A marginal but steady decline has been observed in Bt cotton yield per acre in India during the last few years. When the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) variety of cotton was introduced in India, it caused a revolution and resulted in huge ...
Tags: Bt cotton, India, Productivity
Raw cotton exports from India are likely to decline by 38 percent year-on-year to about 8 million bales of 170 kg each during the ongoing marketing season 2012-13, Textiles Commissioner AB Joshi has said. Speaking to reporters after a ...
Tags: cotton exports, Raw cotton, textile mills
India’s cotton inventory at the end of the current cotton season in September 2013 is likely to increase compared to the carryover stocks at the end of last season, mainly due to a projected decline in exports. India’s Cotton ...
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Fifty third Annual General Meeting of South India Mills' Association (SIMA) was addressed by Chairman Mr. S. Dinakaran. Meeting speech of Mr. S. Dinakaran: The year 2011-12 witnessed a significant slowdown in textile production mainly ...
Tags: textile sector, raw material prices, textile market, textile industry
Union Minister for Commerce, industry and Textiles Shri Anand Sharma has held a review meeting for early commencement of minimum support price operations to stabilize cotton prices which have witnessed a sharp decline and are operating ...
Tags: cotton price, cotton market, cotton industry, staple cotton
Cotton Australia has issued its first pre-season comment on prospects for the 2012-13 cotton season. CEO Adam Kay said the new crop year was pregnant with both problems and opportunities, but on balance the positives should outweigh the ...
Tags: Cotton Season, Cotton market, Cotton industry, transgenic cotton
This will sound like music to the ears of cotton importing countries like China, Bangladesh or Vietnam and also to exporters of the white gold from India. Leaders from opposing Indian lobbies – both the raw cotton and the ...
Tags: white gold, cotton, textile, raw cotton, Cotton Exports
Chairman of All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Ahsan Bashir has said that Pakistan would witness bumper cotton crop this year, expectedly a total of 15 million bales. He has described it as a phenomenal outcome of the Free ...
Tags: Textile, APTMA, Cotton, Cotton Bales, cotton crop
A consortium made up of textile mills in the state of Tamil Nadu in India will purchase around 2.5 million bales (1 bale = 170 kg) cotton amounting to Rs 30 billion or about US $557 million (1 USD = Rs 53.84) in the current cotton season ...
Being no more in a condition to stand the losses stemming from severe power shortage, Andhra Pradesh (AP) ginning mills plan to cease operations from November 5. Power crisis in the state have reached to their zenith, making it ...
Tags: cotton, textile, spinning mill, power shortage
There will be no impact on exports of cotton from India or Pakistan, despite the Chinese government deciding not to sell cotton from the huge reserves it has created in the previous cotton year as part of its state cotton reserves, was the ...
Tags: Pakistan Ginners Association, Mahesh Kumar, cotton coarse yarn