The 34th International Cotton Conference Bremen will take place from March 21 to 23, 2018 at the impressive medieval Town Hall of the Hanseatic Town of Bremen, Germany.
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Opportunities for India in technical textiles The fastest growing middle-class population with higher disposable income is one of the biggest key growth drivers in India for rise in technical textiles consumption, opines Avinash Mayekar of Suvin Advisors.
The Southern India Mills Association (SIMA) has urged Edapadi Palaniswami, the Chief minister of Tamil Nadu to remove 1 per cent Agricultural Market Committee Cess on cotton and cotton waste for the state budget of 2017-18.
Textile mills have started to import cotton from West Africa and the US as the landed costs are on par with the prevailing market price in the country.
Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana has announced that it has developed country’s first genetically-modified (Bt) varieties of cotton  the seeds of which could be reused by farmers, resulting in saving the repeated cost they have to bear every season.
India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has maintained a stable outlook for cotton textiles for FY18. However, the agency has revised its cotton outlook to stable for FY18 from negative for FY17.
According to the USDA first 2017/18 cotton projections at the Agricultural Outlook Forum, it was disclosed that there will be a 6-million-bale decline in global ending stocks.