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
Attaboys aplenty to California, Arizona cotton industry Too many straws have emptied the bucket Managing food safety risks on the orchard floor If there was one ray of sunshine from a recent regulatory convention I attended it was that ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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
Moonshining loses the bootlegger label Attaboys aplenty to California, Arizona cotton industry California cotton growers, ginners score victory This story out of Texas could be played out in California very soon. Every day we take for ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
Resiliency of growers shines with record crop values Bless the bats of agriculture Water the commodity gold of 21st century? Score one for the California cotton industry. It is widely known that California has among the highest prices ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
2013/14 world production is forecast at 25.6 million tons, while consumption is forecast at 24 million tons. World trade is forecast at 9 million tons, and world ending stocks are forecast at a record 19.8 million tons, or an eye-popping ...
Tags: Cotton Stocks, Textile
“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 ...
Cotton cultivation in Latin American country of Colombia has deteriorated due to the decreasing demand from both the domestic and global textile industry as well as lack of sophisticated pest management program. According to the ...
Tags: Cotton, Farming Deteriorates
The proposal to impose new cess on cotton exporters by the Union Government to create fund for stabilizing the drastic price fluctuation of cotton in the country could lead to dip in exports. According to the representatives of the cotton ...
Tags: Cotton Exports, New Cess
The COTTON USA Sourcing Program promoted U.S. cotton yarns and fabrics at the 25th annual ColombiaTex trade show in Medellin. This was the first show since the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement went into effect, giving the U.S. ...
Tags: Textile Makers, Textile
Representatives of more than 260 textile enterprises attended the “2013 China International Cotton Conference” held in Nanjing recently to discuss the current dilemma faced by the Chinese cotton textile industry. ...
Tags: China, Textile, Cotton Textile
Sown area of cotton in China in 2013 will fall 6.7% over a year earlier, showing the cotton production continues to shrink and the stability of cotton production is facing new challenges, according to China Cotton Association. Still ...
Finalists have been announced for the 2013 Australian Cotton Industry Awards, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary. The finalists were announced in a ceremony at the Australian Cotton Trade Show, currently being held at Moree ...
Cotton Australia has welcomed the Queensland Government's announcement for new water licenses in north-west Queensland, which may pave the way for additional cotton-growing areas in the state. Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and ...
Tags: Cotton, Australia, Queensland, Textile
A seeming mundane change in the format of a table can have concrete consequences for industry improvement. In a press note distributed world wide on May 13, 2013, the Cotton Association of India (CAI) reported Indian cotton production, ...
Tags: ICAC Hails, Cotton