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India’s leading Denim producer, Suryalakshmi Cotton has successfully commissioned its 4th state-of-the-art plant in Amravati, Maharashtra. Built at a cost of Rs.131 crore, the fully automated and ultra-modern unit will manufacture high-grade, value-added fancy yarns such as Ring Slub, Stretch, Elli Twist and Compact.

Natural colour cottons are environmental friendly material. Among the four cultivated species of cotton, colour lint is reported in G.arboreum among diploid and in G.hirsutum in tetraploid cottons. White G. barbadense are inherently superior sources of fibre quality and white G. hirsutum cottons are a source of both yield and fibre quality and these have been used for improvement of colour cotton.

China´s cotton imports fell 62.3 per cent in July from a year ago to 1,05,700 tonne. Imports by China, the world´s top cotton consumer, are already down by 33 per cent this year to less than 1 mt after the government issued fewer quotas in a bid to boost demand for domestic fibre.

The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has released its first estimates of the crop for the 2015-16 season beginning on October 1 at 380 lakh bales of 170 kg each. This is almost similar to the output of 382 lakh bales achieved in the 2014-15 season.

´If our cotton could speak, it would describe the extraordinary people behind its growth and cultivation.´ ´Our farmers are passionate: about their work, their crops and their communities. They are devoted to transforming an element from the earth into a fiber of our lives. They see a singular vision of the crop´s connection to what matters every day, and its embrace of all.´

Another bumper crop of cotton is in offing and tremors are felt already on the price front. The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is getting ready for yet another year of minimum support price (MSP) operations.