Cotton Australia CEO, Adam Kay, says planting the 2012-13 crop is now well underway in all regions, with only minor setbacks caused by the recent bout of widespread colder weather. This year Cotton Australia expects a 20 per cent ...
Tags: crops planting, fibre, dryland plantings
In spite of being hit by heavy downpours and floods in parts of Punjab province,Pakistan's cotton production is expected to cross 15 million bales this season,Amanullah Qureshi,the outgoing Chairman of the Pakistan Cotton Ginners ...
The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has urged the Government to frame a uniform national cotton policy in view of the present-day realities. During a media briefing, PCGA Vice Chairman, together with Khawaja Riaz Hussain ...
Tags: Cotton, cotton policy
Aiming to help Pakistan introduce reforms in its key textile sector, South Korean Government has extended US$ 5 million help to the Textile University of Faisalabad to enable it to start new courses on latest trends in textiles. ...
Tags: key textile sector, South Korean Government, Textile University
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
Quton, Zimbabwe's sole surviving cotton planting seed firm, has installed a new cotton seed processing plant at its Tanzania-based subsidiary, Bernama said quoting Zimbabwe's news agency New Ziana. The new plant is likely to deliver ...
Tags: cotton seed plant, SADC, cotton textile
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
The National Cotton Council (NCC) has launched the Emerging Leaders Program, an effort aimed at ensuring the U.S. cotton industry benefits from a continuity of sound leadership. The project, sponsored by a grant to The Cotton Foundation ...
Tags: NCC, Emerging Leaders Program, cotton industry, sound leadership
Plains Cotton Growers (PCG) informed that cotton in the United States is considered some of the least contaminated in the world market. To maintain that reputation, growers and ginners are encouraged to employ techniques that avoid foreign ...
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The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) would be opening its office at the Karachi Cotton Exchange so as to enable the ginners to come in contact with the global ginning industry, Mr. Mahesh Kumar, the newly elected Chairman of PCGA, ...
Tags: PCGA, Karachi Cotton Exchange, textile, FBR
Eyeing capacity building of the country's cotton industry and to enable it to produce quality output and thereby to boost exports and raise profitability of farmers and ginners, Pakistan's Ministry of Textile Industry has decided to ...
Tags: textile, cotton industry, cotton, textile industry