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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.

“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.

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.

Progress in China’s textile industry is increasingly being driven by a young and dynamic generation of professionals – and USTER is proud to play a role in fostering the development of these talented individuals.

Yarn spinners already understand the importance of preventing contamination in their products. A total of 3,500 worldwide installations of Jossi fibre cleaning systems – now produced by USTER – is proof of that. The USTER® JOSSI VISION SHIELD solutions are highly effective at removing even the smallest contaminants, including polypropylene.

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.

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.