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Cotton Council International (CCI) celebrated its first ever virtual Cotton Day in India with focus on sustainability and a greener world post COVID-19 and stronger US-India ties.

After a disastrous year for Egypt?s cotton industry in 2016, the country?s Agriculture Ministry has initiated measures to boost the cotton sector by improving and raising production of long-staple and medium-length cotton.

Following two years of declining planted area, global cotton area for 2017/18 is projected to increase by 11 per cent to 32.5 million hectares

Egypt has signed a $1.74 million cooperation agreement with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation to develop Egyptian cotton production.

In order to ensure availability of cotton for domestic mills, the Indian Government had directed Cotton Corporation of India Ltd to sell its stock of cotton (cotton season 2015-16), purchased under MSP, to spinning mills in the micro small medium enterprise (MSME) category to contain fluctuation in cotton prices.