Cotton

Cork Meets Cotton: Textile Innovation at Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles 2026

Drink your wine… then make fabric from the cork! One of the materials that really caught my attention at Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles 2026 was...

Kenya’s Cotton Revival Shifts Focus From Farming to Textile Manufacturing

Thika Cloth Mills says Kenya’s renewed cotton production could support a wider industrial value chain encompassing ginning, spinning,...

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

Africa’s ambitions to expand its textile and apparel manufacturing industry are becoming increasingly linked to a challenge that...

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’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...

The Better Cotton Initiative launches in Egypt

After many years’ of engagement and preparation, the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), a global not-for-profit organisation, together with the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation...

Cotton Yarn Global exports drops 13.7% in 2019

The global trade of cotton yarn, containing 85.00 per cent more by weight of cotton, have shown a tremendous fall in the year 2019....

TANZANIA AIMS FOR 1 MILLION METRIC TONNE COTTON OUTPUT BY 2025

Tanzania plans to more than double its cotton production in the next five years as farmers increase cultivation, encouraged by higher prices for the...

TEXPROCIL Urges Govt. Support As Cotton Textile Exports Plummet

As per data released by the Indian Ministry of Commerce & Industry, exports of cotton textiles touched US$ 9405 million during April to February...

Necessity of handing over cotton seeds factories to the Union of Cotton Agricultural Cooperatives

Improving the quality of cotton seeds is another important factor in the development of cotton cultivation, and in connection with increasing the quality of...

Associations urge cotton , textile sectors for joint action

The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), UK-based Committee for International Cooperation Between Cotton Associations (CICCA) and International Cotton Association (ICA), US-based International Cotton Advisory Committee...

Egypt’s area under cotton harvest projected to decline

Egypt's area under cotton harvest is projected to drop by almost 35 per cent to 65,000 hectares (ha) in market year (MY) 2020-21 from...

TEXPROCIL Seeks Relief Package for Exporters

Stating that exporters are under severe financial constraints with many of them finding it extremely difficult to pay salaries and wages to the workers for...

Kenya beats Uganda in planting 1st transgenic cotton seed

Kenya’s agriculture cabinet secretary Peter Munya recently planted the country’s first transgenic Bt cotton seed with farmers at Alupe University College in Busia County,...

TEXPROCIL urges policy intervention in textile sector

The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council of India (TEXPROCIL) has requested the government for urgent policy intervention to provide fiscal relief and ensure credit...
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