It’s been 50 years since the animated TV sitcom The Jetsons introduced the world to future technology through flying cars without roads, and the robot maid Rosie and her infamous attitude. Today, the flying car which folded into a ...
Tags: Agriculture, technology, human Interaction
The Secretariat noted last month, that just as in a Sherlock Holmes novel where the telling clue is the dog that did not bark, the key to understanding the cotton market was in recognizing what was not happening. Among other things, cotton ...
Cotton Council International (CCI) will launch the fifth season of its “Let’s Design” TV show, a pan-India fashion design competition that trains India’s future clothing designers and educates consumers on the ...
Tags: cotton, cotton fabric, single garment
Uzbek authorities have increased the use of forced labor by adults and older children in the cotton sector during the past year, Human Rights Watch said. The move was apparently made to shift the burden away from younger children in ...
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The 2012/13 U.S. cotton estimates include lower production and higher off-take, resulting in lower ending stocks relative to last month. Production is lowered 1 percent as a 500,000-bale reduction for Texas—due to larger estimated ...
Tags: cotton, cotton industry, cotton market
The 2013 Farm Press-Cotton Foundation High Cotton Awards recipients are: Southeast – Linwood Vick, Wilson, N.C.; Mid-South – Johnny Little, Holcomb, Miss.; Southwest – John Wilde, San Angelo, Texas; and Far West – ...
Tags: NCC, Cotton Foundation, High Cotton Awards
The International Cotton Association(ICA)received 247 applications for technical arbitration during 2012,compared to its previous record high of 242 applications in 2011. For the past two consecutive years,arbitration requests at the ICA ...
Tags: ICA, ICA trading rules, cotton trade
As in a Sherlock Holmes novel where the telling clue is the dog that didn’t bark the significant features of the cotton industry at the start of 2013 are those that are not happening. In most seasons, the range between the highest and ...
Tags: Cotton Stocks, World War II, cotton industry, 2013
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
Cotton Council International (CCI) will provide comprehensive information on U.S. cotton fiber and the COTTON USA program at its booth at the Heimtextil trade show Jan. 9-12. The booth (Hall 8.0, H 60) will feature home textile samples made ...
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Cotton cultivators in southern African nation of Tanzania have expressed displeasure over the implementation of the new contract farming system in the country. At a recent cotton stakeholders' meeting, farmers said the new system is ...
Tags: displeasure, contract farming, implementation, cotton farmers
The eyes of the textile universe were focused on Vietnam as the International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) held its traditional Annual Conference from Nov. 4 – 6, 2012. In the highly anticipated Fiber Session on Nov. 4, ...
Tags: textile universe, ITMF, Annual Conference, top minds, MMF, Man-Made fiber
A two-fold rise in Uganda’s cotton production during last fiscal indicates that the cotton sector of the country is on the path of revival. Cotton production grew from 147,000 bales in 2010-11 to 254,036 bales during last ...
Tags: Cotton Industry, cotton production revival, cotton cultivation
A suggestion extended by some of the Lake Zone based cotton industry stakeholders to abolish the newly introduced contract farming in Tanzania, has been turned down by the Tanzanian Cotton Board (TCB). Claiming that they were facing ...
Tags: TCB, suggestion, cotton industry, contract farming system, TCA
President Obama and Mr. Romney, during the 2012 US Presidential election campaign the world is listening, and the children, women and men exploited in modern-forms of slavery await your leadership. On this Anti-Slavery Day, the Cotton ...
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