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...

100% cotton from Gap by 2025

Fiber & yarn
100% cotton :: Following Benetton’s recent pledge to use 100 per cent sustainable cotton by 2025, Gap Inc. too has in its statement committed...

Ghana fixes cotton prices for 2019-20 crop season

Fiber & yarn
Ghana recently fixed the seed and input cost for the cultivation of cotton for the 2019-20 crop season at a meeting of government representatives...

Africa Turns Largest Cotton Source for Bangladesh

Fiber & yarn
African nations have left India behind to turn the largest source of cotton for Bangladesh as domestic spinners and millers aim to cut down...

Applied DNA brings its innovative traceability system to Egypt cotton supply chain

Egypt
Egypt has employed Applied DNA’s molecular tagging technology in its two varieties of cotton which help them to ensure product authenticity and provenance. Applied DNA...

Ghana’s Cotton Sector to get $10-mn Boost

Fiber & yarn
RMG Ghana Ltd will invest $10 million in the country’s cotton industry under a five-year project to raise cultivation of the crop from the...

Applied DNA to deploy molecular tagging system in Egypt

Egypt
Applied DNA has received an order for the implementation of its SigNature T cotton traceability system in Egypt to permanently mark two varietals of...

US Textile Fibre Imports at Record High in 2018: USDA

Fiber & yarn
Net textile and apparel fibre imports by the US rose to a second consecutive record in calendar 2018, as consumer demand for clothing increased...

NACOTAN foresees higher cotton production in Nigeria

Fiber & yarn
The National Cotton Association of Nigeria (NACOTAN) is targeting a cotton production output between 240,000 and 300,000 tonnes in 2019, its president Anibe Achimugu...

Uzbek cotton removed from US child labour products list

Fiber & yarn
Uzbek cotton has been removed from a list of products produced with child labour, a notice posted on the Federal Register last month by...

World cotton output to rise 6.8% in 2019-20: USDA

Fiber & yarn
World cotton production is expected to rise 6.8 per cent with yields rebounding in several countries and area also rising, according to the first...
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