Pakistani Food Minister Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan has said that scientists must pay attention to the scourge of the leaf curl virus disease that has been causing colossal loss of two to three million bales of cotton every year. His comments ...
Tags: cash crop, cotton, Cotton Virus
Researchers from China are collaborating with a crop eco-physiologist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Uvalde toward the goal of improving cotton production in south central Texas, AgrilLife said in a press ...
Tags: cotton, corn, wheat crops
Cotton cultivation in southern African country of Mozambique will get a boost from Brazilian technology, under a project signed by the Mozambican Cotton Institute (IAM) and the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC). As part of the ...
The World Cotton Research Conference-6 (WCRC-6) will be held in Goiânia, the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Goiás, from June 20-24, 2016. The WCRC-6 will be organised under the auspices of the ...
Tags: cotton agriculture, Textile
Cotton industry has to alter marketing strategies to catch up with the growing man-made fiber industry, said an expert at the recently concluded 17th Australian Cotton Conference. The conference held earlier this month, as a joint ...
Tags: Cotton Industry, Cotton
Innovative research has transformed the cotton industry in Australia, which now uses less land and water than in the past, according to the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), one of fifteen Rural Research and Development ...
Research conducted at the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) shows that low-grade cotton is highly effective at absorbing crude oil spills. The study, published in the ...
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of Pakistan’s Cabinet has decided to reconstitute Pakistan Central Cotton Committee (PCCC), an organization engaged in cotton research and development. The reconstituted PCCC would have ...
The All Pakistan cAssociation (APTMA) has said that it would soon unveil ‘Vision APTMA 2020’ aimed at boosting textile exports from the current US$ 13 billion to US$ 26 billion by 2020. Talking to media after assuming ...
Tags: Textile Exports
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 ...
In line with its image building exercise to win market access, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) leadership briefed Ausberto Rodriguez Jara, the Ambassador of Paraguay about the strengths of textile industry in Pakistan the ...
Tags: Paraguay Envoy, Pak Textile Sector
Pakistan’s Ministry of Textile Industry has allocated Pk Rs. 179 million to construct a cotton ginning research institute in Multan. The setting up of the research institute is a part of the Government’s aim to modernize and ...
Tags: Cotton, Textile, Textile Industry
A Fibertect® decontamination wipe having bleached cotton outer layers around a non-particulate activated carbon center — developed by researchers at Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, Texas — has been demonstrated to ...
As part of the recent Plant and Animal Genomic Conference held in San Diego, Dr. Don Jones of Cotton Incorporated presented the 2012 Cotton Biotechnology Award to five outstanding researchers that were instrumental in mapping the cotton ...
Tags: Winners, 2012, Cotton Biotechnology Award
As part of the second India-Africa Forum Summit, 32 participants from six African nations including cotton scientists were trained at the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR) on 'Modern Cotton Production Technology' in India. The ...
Tags: CICR, training program, commitment, cotton production