Cotton plantings for 2014/15 will start in a few months in the northern hemisphere, which accounts for about 90% of world production. World area is expected to decline due mostly to the expected decline in China. In 2013/14, the ...
Tags: Cotton Market, Soybeans, Textile
The average yield of cotton in Greece has reached record levels this year and has touched around 322 kg per hectare, Athanasios Tsaftaris, Minister of Rural Development and Food (MADF), said in the House during the debate on state budget ...
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April 2013, the Secretariat's projected price for the current season was 118 cents per pound. Since then ICAC's projected price has plummeted, and the current midpoint of the forecast range is 88. China's reserve and import policies also ...
In April 2013, the Secretariat’s projected price for the current season was 118 cents per pound. Since then ICAC’s projected price has plummeted, and the current midpoint of the forecast range is 88. China’s reserve and ...
Tags: Cotton Prices, import policies
The China National Cotton Reserves Corporation (CNCRC) has started releasing cotton from the state reserves. The floor price has been fixed at 18,000 yuan per ton for standard grade of cotton, and the first released reserves were ...
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The development of production and processing technologies and dissemination to producers are keys to the long run sustainability of the world cotton industry. There is always a need to improve technologies currently available and to ...
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Tajikistan’s Minister of Agriculture Qosim Qosimov met with Andrey Gitchuns, representative of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC), and exchanged views on Tajikistan’s membership of the ICAC, the Ministry of ...
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Words have meaning. When different words are used for the same thing, or the same words are used for different things, confusion results. Cotton has been produced for thousands of years, but the commercial industry is about 200 years old, ...
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During the 2013/14 season, world cotton production is projected at 25.5 million tons, the lowest in four seasons, but world cotton mill use is expected to remain around 23.5 million tons with consumption shifting from China to other ...
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The 72nd Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) used its First Open Session to address what is likely the cotton industry's single greatest threat: synthetic fibers. The panel of expert speakers during the ...
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When talking about the growth of middle-class consumers, the discussion often centers on China and India. But the Latin American market is showing impressive growth as well, and raising the visibility of awareness of cotton among those ...
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The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) and Generation 10 Ltd (G10), a leading provider of commodity supply chain software solutions, announce the successful launch of the ICAC World Cotton Database. The World Cotton Database, ...
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World trade in denim fabric fluctuated between 530,000 tons and 760,000 tons per year between 2001 and 2011, and averaged 670,000 tons over those years. The largest import market is Hong Kong, followed by Turkey and Mexico, with annual ...
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The 2013 ITMF Annual Conference opened on September 8 in Bregenz, Austria. The overall theme is "Rebalancing the Power between Manufacturing and Retail." After the first day of the conference, it was quite astonishing to see how much the ...
The Latin American Association for Cotton Research and Development (ALIDA) will hold its 13th Meeting in Cartagena, Colombia on October 3, 2013. The meeting will continue all day parallel to other sessions of the 72nd ICAC Plenary ...