Two top scientists from the Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture are in Islamabad this week to lead the annual review of the US-Pakistan Cotton Productivity Enhancement Programme, Pakistani newspapers have ...
Tags: Cotton, cotton industry
The theme of the 73rd Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) will be “From Land to Brand: Strengthening the Cotton Value Chain". This annual event is one of the premier fixtures in the world cotton ...
Tags: Cotton Value, Apparel, Textile
The third meeting of Pakistan’s Federal Committee on Cotton (FCC), held under the chairmanship of Rukhsana Shah, Secretary, Ministry of Textile Industry (MinTex), unanimously agreed to fix the cotton production target at 15.1 million ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Target, Pakistan's
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 ...
Tags: cotton technology, Textile
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 ...
Tags: Cotton, Economic Revival
The South American country of Peru has come up with six programs to improve the productivity of cotton in the country, and thereby to promote Peru's cotton exports, said Minister of Agriculture, Milton von Hesse. The suggested programs ...
A marginal but steady decline has been observed in Bt cotton yield per acre in India during the last few years. When the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) variety of cotton was introduced in India, it caused a revolution and resulted in huge ...
Tags: Bt cotton, India, Productivity
Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has stated that given the importance of cotton for the textiles sector of the country, it is important to use technology as a tool for increasing cotton productivity. In a statement here, Mr. ...
Tags: CITI, cotton, textiles, cotton productivity, cotton farming