Cotton growers around the world spent an average of 11 cents on planting seed to produce a kilogram of lint in 2012/13, representing 7% of the net cost of production. (Net costs are total costs excluding land rent and the value of ...
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
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 ...
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“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 ...
Registration for the 72nd Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee is underway. The agenda of the meeting features different sessions, including opening & breakout sessions in which the main topics of discussion are ...
Tags: Textile
The Standing Committee of the International Cotton Advisory Committee gave approval to the Provisional Agenda of the 72nd Plenary Meeting during its 523rd Meeting on April 18, 2013. The 72nd Plenary Meeting will be held in Cartagena de ...
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The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) is inviting applications for the “ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year 2013." The closing date for receipt of applications is March 31, 2013. A team of six judges handles the ...
European privacy authorities approved a plan to come up with measures to curb Google's collection, combination and storage of its users' personal information before the summer. The data protection regulators have decided to continue their ...
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On the instruction of the 71st Plenary Meeting of the ICAC, the 521st Meeting of the Standing Committee has established a Task Force on the Challenges from Competing Fibers. Member governments are requested to nominate experts with subject ...
Tags: ICAC, Fibres, Competing Fibers, fiber competition
Russia, China and some other countries have withdrawn a draft proposal at the World Conference on International Telecommunications, that according to some accounts aimed to bring the Internet under the control of the International ...
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Mr. Mark A. Messura was elected Chairman of the International Forum for Cotton Promotion (IFCP) at the Annual Business Meeting of the membership held in Interlaken, Switzerland on October 09, 2012. Mr. Messura is the Senior Vice President ...
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Visitors from the fields of mechanical engineering, industry, skilled trades, architects/(façade) planners as well as the solar sector all gave glasstec 2012 a ‘good report’. Alongside the positive mood for the future ...
The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) met in Interlaken, Switzerland during October 7-11, 2012 for its 71st Plenary Meeting since the establishment of the Committee in 1939. Participation was nearly 400 including, ...
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The Standing Committee approved the Agenda for the 71st Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Council (ICAC) since it's founding in 1939 at its 520th Meeting on Thursday, September 20, 2012. The 71st Plenary Meeting will ...
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The 71st Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), held in the Swiss city of Interlaken, featured a week of intensive discussion and debate on issues facing today's global cotton industry. The over-arching theme ...
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