The Institute for Sustainable Communities study was done across three regions of Maharashtra. Its climate analysis predicts a mismatch in rainfall and temperature patterns: soybean, cotton, wheat and gram at risk.
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Millions are being invested to boost cotton research in Texas. Cotton research gets a boost from the State of Texas through its Governor’s University Research Initiative. Texas has funded US$5 million to boost research and education in cotton at Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock.
The Texas Farm Bureau estimates the cotton crop in the US could be the largest in 11 years, citing a report from the US Department of Agriculture.
The focus during the budget session was predominantly on infrastructure, affordable housing, agriculture, rural development, employment, speedy accountability, prudent fiscal management and transparency in taxation, says Amit Gugnani.
Through our extensive market research, we have understood the demand of technical textile products in developed countries have reached to stagnancy level now and market is shifting to developing counties, says Avinash Mayekar, MD & CEO of Suvin Advisors Pvt Ltd, in an interview with the ITJ.
The global technical textile market that was worth $133.93 billion in 2012 is expected to reach up to $160.38 billion by 2018. It also predicts that in terms of volume the global demand will grow at a temperate CAGR of 3.3 per cent from 2012 to 2018 and reach 30.71 million tonnes by the end of 2018.
The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has placed the cotton crop for the season 2014-15 beginning on 1st October 2014 at 405.50 lakh bales of 170 kg. each.