Month: May 2017

Farmers and agriculture experts in Punjab are expecting a major increase in the area under cotton cultivation this season. The Punjab Agriculture Department has set a target of 4 lakh hectares to be brought under cotton cultivation in eight districts of the Malwa belt.

Cotton community in the US has realised that cotton industry needs collective effort by all stakeholders to advance. End-user communities, research organisations, financial institutions, policy makers need to work with cotton, agriculture and for that matter any industrial sector to advance.

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is organising a National Conference on Innovative & Water Efficient Processes in the Textile Sector Promoting Sustainability & Competitiveness on May 18, 2017 at New Delhi.

The Haryana Government’s recently announced textile policy, which aims for integrated development of the textile industry, is expected to make the State competitive for investments in the sector, rating agency ICRA said.

The Swiss textile innovator HeiQ will launch a new product HeiQ Fresh NKU in its durable odour control HeiQ Fresh Tech technology family at Techtextil, which will be held from May 9-12 in Frankfurt.

Exhibition space application for ITMA 2019, the world’s largest textile and garment technology exhibition, is now open. The exhibition, which has been held every four years since 1951, showcases the entire textile and garment making manufacturing chain, as well as raw materials.