Cotton
Regenerative Cotton Standard®: Impressive Results Following First Harvest in India
With higher crop yields, lower costs and an increased awareness of regenerative agriculture, the Regenerative Cotton Standard® (RCS) is delivering promising results after only...
Africa
Aid by Trade Foundation Announces New Head of Business Development
Valéa Vadaleau will join the Aid by Trade Foundation team as Head of Business Development on March 1,...
Editorial Pick: Textile News
T-SCAN: Indian Customers Confirm Impressive Performance
Removing foreign parts from cotton is a challenging task. That’s why our T-SCAN technology features multiple modules that...
Africa
Better Cotton Completes Certification Transition, Enhances Supply Chain Oversight
Better Cotton has today completed its transition to become a certification scheme. This strategic move underscores the organisation’s...
Economy News
Spinnova Oyj (Finland) Joins ITMF As Corporate Member
Based in Finland, Spinnova has developed patented technology for making textile fibre from wood pulp or waste, such...
Cameroon: Cicam purchased only 1% of fiber cotton produced in 2019-2020
Sodecoton produced a record 328,453 tons of cottonseed during the 2019-2020 cotton campaign, which was technically completed in May 2020. With that cottonseed, the...
The Year 2020 and Cotton Textiles Sector
By Seshadri Ramkumar, Texas Tech UniversityYear 2020 keeps on giving and the cotton textiles sector is not immune to multiple pressures.With the arrival of...
Cotton Production for 2020 Report: USDA
Cotton Production for 2020 is to be raised 3 percent to 18.1 million bales: USDA
August 2020/21 U.S. cotton outlook includes higher beginning stocks, production,...
Growing the Cotton Sector
By: Seshadri Ramkumar, Professor, Texas Tech University, USACotton supply chain is a vital job-creating sector, from agriculture to fashion industry.With the COVID-19 creating a...
Global Exports of Cotton Yarn Expected to Strengthen
The global export of cotton yarns has reportedly declined 9.5 per cent from $14,565.80 million in the year 2017 to $13,182.02 million in 2019....
First organic cotton ginning plant in West Africa
West and Central Africa have their first organic cotton ginning plant, a move designed to boost the regions textile industries.Inaugurated by the President of...
Cotton Demand Needs Enhancement
By: Seshadri Ramkumar, Texas Tech University - Professor, Nonwovens & Advanced Materials Laboratory(Lubbock, USA, August 18, 2020)—Indian current year’s cotton production will be more...
From old jeans to new t-shirt ; An efficient way of recycling cotton clothes
The technical hurdles to recycling clothing made of cotton have been too high in the past, but now a team of researchers at the...
A Closer Look at Zimbabwean Fashion Industry Export
Fashion, which is more than just clothing, has for a long time been considered as a conveyor of status, statement, affiliations, values, ideals and...
GLOBAL COTTON DEMAND TO DECLINE BY 15%
The Cotton and Wool Outlook study of the Economic Research Service indicates that, for June 2020, the global economic downturn has substantially reduced world...
