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...

TANZANIA AIMS FOR 1 MILLION METRIC TONNE COTTON OUTPUT BY 2025

Fiber & yarn
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

Fiber & yarn
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

Economy News
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

Fiber & yarn
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

Fiber & yarn
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

Garment & Fashion
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

Fiber & yarn
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

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

Minister: We seek to revive textile industry, restore Egyptian cotton glory

Egypt
Minister of Public Business Sector Hesham Tawfik said Sunday that his ministry continues carrying out ambitious plans to develop spinning and weaving industries and...

Adidas Tops Cotton Ranking 2020 for Sustainable Cotton

Fiber & yarn
Adidas has taken the top slot in the Cotton Ranking 2020 published by three non-governmental organisations (NGOs—UK-based Pesticide Action Network (PAN), the Netherlands-based Solidaridad...
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