The Government of Pakistan should involve all stakeholders including the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) while devising the ‘National Cotton Policy’, PCGA chairman Mahesh Kumar said during a press conference. ...
Tags: Cotton Policy, Textile
The ICAC Standing Committee approved the Final Agenda for the 72nd Plenary Meeting of the Committee since 1939 at its 525th Meeting in Cary, North Carolina on August 22, 2013. The 72nd Plenary Meeting will be held in Cartagena, Colombia, ...
Tags: Cotton Value Chain, Textile
The latest ICAC survey on the cost of cotton production indicates that weed control is becoming increasingly expensive. Weed control costs include manual/mechanical weeding, thinning (also supplement weeding), hoeing and herbicide use. ...
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The Central Asian country of Uzbekistan is expecting to produce 1.1 million tons of processed cotton in 2013, to maintain the production at the level of 2012. According to the Uzbek Cotton Industry Association (Uzkhlopkoprom ...
Tags: Cotton Output, Textile
World cotton production in 2013/14 is forecast at 116.4 million bales, 1.6 million bales below last month’s projection, which is mainly the result of forecast reductions for China and the United States. Prices favored alternative ...
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The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates for 2013/14 project world cotton stocks to reach a new record at 93.8 million bales, 7.4 million bales above the previous season. Stocks this season are expected to rise for the ...
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Expenditures on insect control in cotton are essentially unchanged at about 16 or 17 cents per kilogram of cotton over the last decade, despite inflation in chemical prices. However, as a percent of total production costs, insecticides are ...
Tags: Cotton, Insect Control Costs
Zimbabwe is likely to miss its cotton production target of 250 million kg set for the ongoing selling season, which is expected to close by the end of August. For the current season, Agritex and farmers’ unions had set ...
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According to USDA’s first survey-based forecast of the 2013 crop, U.S. cotton production is projected at 13.1 million bales, 447,000 bales below July’s estimate and nearly 4.3 million bales below last season’s crop. The ...
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The Indian Cotton Federation (ICF), formerly The South India Cotton Association, would be organizing an ‘All India Cotton Trade & Industry Conference’ on September 13-14, 2013, at Coimbatore. A similar conference organized by ...
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Nigeria’s Bank of Industry (BoI) has announced that about N56.48 billion of the N100 billion Cotton, Textiles and Garmenting (CTG) Revival Fund allocated by the Federal Government has been distributed till date. This was ...
Tags: Cotton, Textiles, Garmenting
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) South American debut took place in the VICUNHA showroom in São Paulo. A separate BCI corner was installed as a platform for documentaries and presentations, in order to introduce BCI to major South ...
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The Peruvian cotton only meets 40 percent of the requirements of Peru’s textile and garment chain, and the rest 60 percent is met by imported cotton, mainly US cotton. Jose Ignacio Llosa, president of the Committee of ...
“Sustainability” has become a conundrum for primary commodity industries: something everyone demands but no one knows quite how to define or what it means in practical terms. The ICAC Expert Panel on Social, Environmental and ...
The prices at which cotton is sold in Ethiopian markets is comparatively lesser than the rates quoted in international markets. In March this year, cotton was sold at US$ 3.95 a kilo in international markets, whereas the local growers ...
Tags: Cotton Production, Lower Prices