cotton

Prime Minister Imran Khan decided that Pakistan cannot go ahead with any trade with India under the current circumstances after holding consultations with key members of his Cabinet on importing…

Pakistan’s Federal Cabinet on Thursday deferred a proposal of its Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) to import sugar, cotton and yarn from India “until Article 370 is restored”. On Thursday, the…

Cotton yield and production have stagnated due to declining investment in breeding and lack of new technology introduction The government has increased prices of BG2 cotton seeds by 5%. In…

China had become H&M’s third biggest market before the boycott. Representational image. REUTERS Stockholm: Swedish clothing giant H&M said on 31 March it was doing “everything” to resolve a boycott…

India’s cotton and sugar sectors have welcomed the news of Pakistan finally allowing the import of yarn and 5 lakh tonnes of sugar from the country. This will help India…

Kaveri generates ~50% revenues from cotton seeds: Higher cotton prices are likely to increase cotton sowing leading to better demand for cotton seeds. Crude oil prices are up 26% y-o-y…

Indian cotton is still the most reasonably priced globally, and the industry is also getting good quality cotton at consistent price. The cotton season of 2020-21 has almost come to…

Hyderabad-based JK Agri Genetics Ltd, an arm of the JK Organisation, is collaborating with the Bangladesh government to hold field trials of genetically-modified cotton in the neighbouring country. “The Bangladesh…

The exoplanet WASP-107b may be as large as Jupiter, but this super-puff planet only contains one-tenth as much mass as the king of our Solar System. The density of this…

MCX, the country’s largest commodity exchange, has received an encouraging response with cotton deposits in the current season (started last October) till date. The deposits have nearly tripled as of…

Aggrawal said prices were getting aligned since the demand was slowly returning back to normal after the Covid pandemic. With prices of quality raw cotton rising up to Rs 6,000…

In the Covid-19 pandemic year, the cotton value-chain, like others, has faced unprecedented disruptions. The optimism for a revival is now driven by resilient markets accompanied by sustainable cultivation. Bruce…

The agency said the region-wide ban was “based on information that reasonably indicates the use of detainee or prison labor and situations of forced labor,” saying it had found examples…

Rutam Vora Even as cotton consumption is expected to return to pre-Covid levels during the ongoing season (October to September), the closing stock is likely to be one of the…

Former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday said the apprehensions of farmers were already coming true in Punjab with “the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) putting daily ceilings on…

 Private traders are offering Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,600 per quintal based on quality of cotton as against Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000 last year. Hyderabad: Cotton farmers said they…

Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority labourers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced into picking cotton by hand through a coercive state labour scheme, a report has said.…

China has strongly denied allegations of forced labour involving Uighurs in Xinjiang, and accused the US of wanting to ‘suppress Xinjiang companies’ Representational image. Reuters Beijing: Hundreds of thousands of ethnic…

US Customs and Border Protection will detain shipments containing cotton and cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a major cotton producer in the region, which is…