Cotton

Climate Change Puts Africa’s Cotton and Textile Ambitions Under Pressure

Africa Elham Habibi - 0
Africa’s ambitions to expand its textile and apparel manufacturing industry are becoming increasingly linked to a challenge that begins far before the spinning mill...
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Africa

Benin Plans to Triple Local Cotton Processing as Textile Industry Expands

Benin is moving to increase its domestic cotton-processing capacity from 40,000 tonnes to 140,000 tonnes as part of...
Africa

Africa’s Cotton Industry Holds Key to Millions of Textile Jobs, Experts Say

Africa's cotton industry could become one of the continent's strongest drivers of industrial growth, employment, and economic transformation...
Middle East and Africa

Cameroon Partners with Tunisia to Strengthen Cotton and Textile Value Chain

Cameroon is seeking to strengthen its textile and apparel industry by drawing on Tunisia's industrial expertise, as the...
Africa

Cotton made in Africa Receives Top “Excellent” Rating from Germany’s Siegelklarheit Platform

Cotton made in Africa has received the highest possible rating of “Excellent” from Siegelklarheit, Germany’s sustainability label assessment...

Cattail Textile Fiber and its Research Trend

Fiber & yarn
Author: Md. Khalilur Rahman Khan/  khalilbutex@gmail.com Former Assistant Professor, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology. Abstract: Cattail (Typha spp.) is an iconic wetland plant found worldwide, particularly...

COVID-19 and Africa’s cotton production

Middle East and Africa
There are over 20 million smallholder cotton farmers in Africa Cotton is a commercial crop grown mainly for its fibre or lint, a raw material...

The new innovation from Trützschler ; Pre-Cleaner CL-X

Textile Machinery
The new Pre-Cleaner CL-X: Higher productivity and lower energy consumption Double the production rate, with lower energy consumption per kilogram of fiber material – that...

French Development Agency to invest $83m in Ivory Coast cotton sector

Middle East and Africa
Over a period of five years, the French Development Agency (AFD) will invest €68.5 million ($83.04 million) to increase cotton production in Ivory Coast,...

Kenya Aims to Produce 200,000 Bales of GMO Cotton by 2022

Kenya
Kenya aims to increase its commercial production of GMO cotton by ten times next year. Its target is to involve over 200,000 farmers to...

Egypt ready for world’s largest textile factory by March 2022

Egypt
Egypt is going full throttle with the construction of a textiles factory in the city of El-Mahalla that is slated to become the world's...

Brazilian cotton index drops 4.96% in March

Fiber & yarn
The CEPEA/ESALQ Index for cotton in Brazil dropped by 4.96 per cent for the month from February 26 to March 31, closing at 4.8088...

South African woven cotton textile sector workers get 5.5% rise

Middle East and Africa
Those working in the woven cotton textile sub-sector in South Africa will receive a 5.5 per cent wage increase, with effect from last month,...

Uzbekistan to prioritize local cotton for their textiles industry

Fiber & yarn
Uzbekistan; Cotton over the marketing year (MY 2020-21), Uzbekistan expects to grow around 3.1 million cotton bales. A survey from the International Textile MagazineTextilegence says...

Benin starts training session on PRC machinery to boost cotton sector

Middle East and Africa
About 225 agricultural operators in Benin recently started a month-long training session on Chinese expertise in farm machinery operation. The target is to improve cotton...
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