Search Results: cotton (4206)

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.

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 output to rise by 4%: MM Chockalingam
The Cotton Corporation of India Limited or CCI is engaged in diverse activities related to trade, procurement, and export of cotton. CCI is a public sector agency responsible for equitable distribution of cotton among the different constituents of the industry and aid imports of cotton.

“My recent visit to Cairo to visit a textile exhibition, Egy Stitch Tex has given me some eye-openers & changed my perspective of Egypt’s textile industry. First and foremost solid ‘mind block’ was that Egyptians only process cotton whereas I found that synthetic blended materiala are also having bigger pie than cotton-based textiles in Egypt”, says Avinash Mayekar, MD of Suvin Advisors.

Among the major cotton producing countries, India holds the largest area under cotton cultivation, which covers around 11-13 million hectares of agricultural land constituting about 40 per cent of world’s total area under cotton cultivation, says Amit Gugnani of Technopak.

All pointers are pointing in the right direction for cotton, and the current cotton year is sure to bring more cheer to the cotton stakeholders in India, spells out an ITJ Exclusive Report.

After a year of whimpers and subdued whispers, it’s all smiles on the cotton front now!

All pointers are pointing in the right direction for cotton, and the current cotton year is sure to bring more cheer to the cotton stakeholders in India, spells out an ITJ Exclusive Report.

Cotton industry stakeholders in the High Plains of Texas who gathered in Lubbock recently, were highly optimistic on this year’s cotton planting, Washington politics and global demand and market scenario. There is going to be lot of acres in Texas with about 20 per cent increase in acreage predicted.