The two-day Global Cotton Summit Bangladesh-2015, being jointly organised by the Bangladesh Cotton Association (BCA) and Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA), will take place on 20-21 March, 2015, in Dhaka. The summit will be ...
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The Société de développement du coton (Sodecoton), the Cotton Development Company of the West African country of Cameroon, would be soon starting its research to introduce genetically modified (GM) cotton in Cameroon, ...
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The Cotton Board of Zambia has praised the Government’s policy of careful treading in adopting commercialization of biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops, reports Lusaka Times. Releasing a report on the global status of ...
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The estimated cotton crop of India is 3 crores 75 lakh bales of which approximately 3 crore bales have arrived in the cotton market. Out of this 85 lakh bales have been registered for exports as per trade sources and 80 lakh bales of cotton ...
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In 2013, Cameroon exported 66,000 tons of cotton to China, showing a decline of 7.3 percent year-on-year, according to the statistics released by Commodafrica, Business in Cameroon reported. Cameroon’s cotton exports to China ...
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The Committee of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) at its 1st meeting held on September 19, 2013 at 02.00 PM at Malabar, Hotel Trident, Nariman Point, Mumbai, unanimously elected Shri Prem Malik as Chairman, Shri Mukund ...
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Current quotes for various Indian varieties rose significantly during the fortnight. The depreciating Rupee is causing great concern in the Textile Industry. From Rs 61.73 the Rupee depreciated to Rs 68.83 on 28th of August and recovered ...
The fortnightly report on cotton arrival for the 2013-14 season, released by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA), shows that around 1.73 million bales of cotton have reached ginners by September 1, 2013. The ginners have so ...
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The textile sector in Africa is one of the ancient textile industries in the world with highly skilled workers but the industry lost its pride due to several reasons and currently it is faced with several challenges. The textile and apparel ...
Few decades ago, African countries, including Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, were listed in the list of world’s largest textile industries and currently the textile sector in the region is faced with several challenges. ...
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Eastern African countries including, Kenya and Tanzania, are focusing on cotton sector for the economic revival of the region and they have introduced several policies and incentives to improve cotton production in the region. Speaking to ...
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China Africa Cotton Mozambique Ltd. (CACM) has begun the process of setting up a cotton ginning unit at Subue, in Sofala province of the Southeast African nation of Mozambique. The new cotton ginnery, being set up at a cost of US$ 6 ...
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Cotton growers of Cameroon have sold 221,000 tons of cotton in the market during the crop season 2012-13, according to Cameroon National Confederation of Cotton Producers (CNPCC). The amount of cotton brought by farmers to the market ...
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Pakistan’s Punjab province has completed cotton sowing on 16 percent of the total area targeted by the Federal Cotton Committee (FCC) for the ongoing cotton season, Cotton Development Commissioner in the Ministry of Textile Industry ...
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Cameroon’s Cotton Development Company (SODECOTON) is expecting the country’s cotton production to rise to about 235,000 tons, about 30 percent more than 180,000 tons of cotton produced last season. More than 200,000 tons ...
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