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Cotton Yarn Demand To Recover In FY2025: ICRA

Textile Insights August 9, 2024

Domestic demand growth is set to outpace exports, driven by a recovery in downstream segments. Operating margins are expected to expand by 100-150 bps in FY2025 with improved gross contribution levels. ICRA forecasts a recovery for the domestic cotton spinning industry in FY2025, with a growth

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Kasturi Cotton Bharat Uses Blockchain For Traceability

Textile Insights August 8, 2024

The Ministry of Textiles’ Kasturi Cotton Bharat program is setting a new benchmark in cotton traceability, certification, and branding in India. Launched through a collaboration between the Government of India, trade bodies, and industry stakeholders, this pioneering initiative was formalized with a budgetary support of Rs 30 crore, including Rs 15 crore contributed

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CCI Promotes India-US Textile Partnership With Focus On US Cotton

July 10, 2024

A media roundtable led by Cotton Council International (CCI) highlighted strategic India-US textile trade partnerships, emphasizing US cotton as the favoured choice for Indian spinners. On June 19, the “COTTON USA: Weaving Threads of Unity between the U.S. Cotton and Indian Textile Industry” event held in New Delhi, delved deeper into this collaboration. India’s textile

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Zydex’s Prakalp Sanjivani Protocol — A Holistic & Profitable Approach To Chemical-Free Farming

July 10, 2024

Prakalp Sanjivani protocol introduces innovative methodologies to address various challenges in agriculture, particularly in transitioning to chemical-free practices, informs Dr. Ajay Ranka, Chairman & Managing Director of Zydex Group, while conversing with Textile Insights In India, a significant successful demonstration has happened in about 1000 farms who have fully

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China’s Cotton Imports For 2023-24 Season To Surge To Highest Level In Over A Decade

July 10, 2024

China’s cotton imports for the 2023-24 season are forecast to reach 14.8 million bales, more than double last year’s volume, marking the highest level in more than a decade. Several factors have contributed to this surge in demand, including purchases for government reserves, lower domestic production and lower foreign prices relative to domestic prices. These

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Are You Selling Water At The Price Of Cotton?

July 10, 2024

We have heard that new ideas come to us out of the blue as if from the sky. But sometimes, ideas literally come to us through “high-level” meetings that we attend unwittingly up in the sky while we travel by plane! It’s not unusual to bump into a person from the same industrial field at […]

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Better Cotton Announces 2024 Member Award Winners

June 30, 2024

Better Cotton revealed the recipients of its 2024 Member Awards during a prestigious ceremony at the two-day Better Cotton Conference in Istanbul, Türkiye. Alan McClay, CEO of Better Cotton, and Eva Benavidez Clayton, Senior Director of Membership and Supply Chain, presented awards recognizing outstanding contributions to the cotton industry. In the 2021-2022 season,

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Carhartt Inc. Joins U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol For Sustainable Cotton

June 30, 2024

The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol announced that Carhartt Inc. has become the latest brand to join its sustainable cotton programme. Carhartt, renowned for over 135 years for producing durable gear that serves hardworking individuals, has chosen to partner with the Trust Protocol to enhance its responsible cotton sourcing practices. Gretchen R. Valade, Director of

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SISPA Urges CCI to Prioritize Cotton Sales To MSME Mills

June 28, 2024

The South India Spinners Association (SISPA) has called for immediate action from the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to prioritize cotton sales to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) spinning mills beginning July 1. SISPA has urged that the current cotton sales policy from CCI be extended for the next three months. “The textile sector […]

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DG Okonjo-Iweala Urges Enhanced Collaboration to Boost Africa’s Cotton Trade

June 27, 2024

At the 9th Global Review of Aid for Trade on June 26, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala highlighted the progress of the WTO-FIFA-led “Partenariat pour le Coton,” an initiative aimed at advancing African countries in the cotton value chain. She emphasized the need for increased collaboration to enable African cotton producers to maximize the benefits of cotton […]