India is still miles away from tapping the full potential of organic cotton despite a major global share of 56 per cent and a promise of 20 per cent higher return for farmers from this white gold. An ITJ Exclusive portrays the problems and prospects.
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High Plains of Texas is gearing up with its cotton harvest, which may continue till Christmas
The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) has said that the government must ensure availability of raw materials to the struggling textile industry as promised under Prime Minister’s Export Package at the earliest).
Uster Technologies, a high-technology instrument manufacturer of products for quality measurement and certification for the textile industry, has announced that its machinery for total cotton contamination control have proved to be successful at China’s Texhong Group.
Maintaining the market share, enhancing consumer awareness and continuous investments in R and D are needed to advance the cotton sector. Steve Verett, Executive Vice President of Lubbock, TX-based Plains Cotton Growers, etc.
A group of 84 students accompanied by a handful of teachers, visited the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at Lubbock-based Texas Tech University to know more about cotton. The 8th grade students belong to Terra Vista Middle School, Frenship ISD in Lubbock.
Organic cotton is in high demand on the world market. To guarantee that manufactured cotton is genuinely organic, laboratory testing is required. Whether cotton and cotton-based end products contain genetic modifications can therefore be reliably verified.