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  • Cotton production in India, the world’s second-biggest exporter, will climb to a record as above-average monsoon rainfall increased planting, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said. “The growing areas have received very good rains,” Pawar said in an interview yesterday. “Excessive rains in some areas will not impact the total output. Production should reach a record.” The harvest was the highest ever at 35.2 million bales of 170 kilograms each in 2011-2012, according to Agriculture Ministry dat
  • China's crude oil imports jumped 19.6 percent in July from a year earlier to a record high of 26.11 million tons, or 6.18 million barrels a day (bpd), government data showed Thursday. July imports also grew 17.8 percent from June's 22.17 million tons (5.60 million bpd), the General Administration of Customs said on its Website. The figure surpassed the previous record of 6.03 million bpd logged in May 2012. China, the world's second-biggest oil consumer after the US, imported 5.68 million bpd
  • Thies GmbH has introduced a new “iMaster” F series dyeing machine specifically for dyeing high pile fabrics such as terry toweling. The “iMaster” F series has been designed for dyeing heavy pile fabrics, such as terry toweling, and ensures economic and environmental operation with advanced automation at low liquor levels as low as 1:4 for cotton. The F series is the latest innovation for the highly successful “iMaster” range of dyeing machines. It features a large transport winch inside th
  • Based on the current scenario in international business climate the apparel sector has set itself a target of achieving US$ 5 billion in 2015 through garment exports. A further US$ 1 billion is targeted from the emerging new market in China around that time, together will make the apparel sector worth nearly US$7 billion before the end of 2020, Tuli Cooray Secretary-General of the JAAF said. President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as Finance Minister last week released a gazette notificat
  • Cambodia's garment industry makes up 80% of its exports and employs hundreds of thousands of people. Strikes and violent demonstrations at garment factories in Cambodia have quadrupled over the past year, and a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) said that conditions at factories were worse now than they had been in recent years. Source: BBC
  • El Comercio Peruvian cotton only meets 40 percent of the demand of Peru’s textile and garment chain, and the remaining 60 percent is being met by imported cotton from the U.S., the Andina news agency reported. According to Jose Ignacio Llosa, the president of the Committee of Textiles of the National Society of Industries, the Peruvian cotton production is limited by several structural problems that the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MINAGRI) is trying to resolve, but has failed to
  • Arvind, KG Denim and Nandan Exim have each posted over 20% growth rates in their net profits for the said period。 Oversupply and continual rise in capacity notwithstanding, the denim industry has plugged a double digit growth in bottomline for the first quarter of fiscal 2013-14. Major players like Arvind, KG Denim and Nandan Exim have each posted over 20 per cent growth rates in their net profits for the said period. While its overall standalone net profit growth was 75 per cent at Rs
  • Bangladesh is preparing to finalise a contract to buy 200,000 tonnes of Uzbek cotton yearly, Financial Express reported August 5. "Since Uzbekistan is a major source of cotton for us, we want to make the import process easier and uninterrupted," a senior Bangladeshi Commerce Ministry official told Financial Express. Uzbekistan supplies about 35% of the cotton imported by Bangladesh, the official added. Uzbekistan is the world's sixth top cotton producer. Source: Central Asia Online .
  • The country's raw cotton export slumped by 67 percent during last fiscal year - 2012-13 (FY13), mainly due to shortfall in the cotton crop and higher prices in the domestic market. Traders said on Monday that during FY13 rising domestic demand, higher prices and contamination issues hampered the export of raw cotton, which posted a massive increase during FY12. They said during the last fiscal year, cotton prices in the domestic market were higher than international market due to high demand a
  • Cotton prices in India are expected to rise this week after the government eased restrictions on exports by the Cotton Corp of India (CCI), while improved buying by millers amid thin supplies are also seen supporting prices. India relaxed restrictions on the export of cotton by the state-run CCI in the current season to end-September as the world's second-biggest cotton grower expects a better crop in 2013/2014. "The trend looks firm because spot buying has improved. Market sentiment is positi
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