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China's foiled cotton procurement policy has disrupted the entire global cotton textile chain including Pakistan. In 2011China started its cotton procurement plan by setting support price of cotton at a [...]

The outgoing year 2013 has brought good news for the textile sector owing to the rise in exports and the much-awaited GSP Plus status granted by the European Union just [...]

Turkmenistan, which launched its cotton harvest campaign to harvest 1.109 million tonnes of raw cotton from cultivated area of 550,000 hectares. Last year, the country harvested 1.1 million tonnes of [...]

Byline: Dr. H.R. Sheikh The cotton is a fascinating fibre, and it is interesting that approximately 5,000 to 10,000 fibre may grow on a single seed. The cotton fibres may [...]

Rating agency Fitch said that India's partial lifting of a ban on cotton exports has led to uncertainty over prices and time of purchasing of the natural fibre by the [...]

The Banks' outstanding under Export Refinance Scheme (ERS) declined to three-year low level of Rs 192 billion at the end of calendar year 2011, mainly due to State Bank's condition [...]

As the cost of raw cotton continues to fluctuate, spinners are under pressure to deliver quality yarns without hitting their customers with unpalatable rises in yarn prices. In this shaky [...]

China's textile experts point out that industrial policy will continue to play an important regulatory role in 2012, and will effectively prevent cotton price from soaring and plummeting. Total purchase [...]

With cotton prices already falling close to its one year low and no major increase in volumes, the fibre experts believe Pakistan's textile sector exports in fiscal year (FY) 2012 [...]

Cotton growers, ginners and exporters, who were trou bled by the plunge in cotton prices in recent months, finally have something to rejoice upon. The government withdrew the ban on [...]

India's garment exporters are seeking for new destinations due to tepid demand in the traditional US and European mar kets. Indian garment manufacturers are suffering due to escalating cotton yarn [...]

The country's textile and spinning mills have been in the news for quite sometime because of the price volatility in the global cotton market. The mills are now in dire [...]

Cotton prices have gone up by Rs 1,100 per maund due to ongoing rains in Sindh and Punjab. The rains have damaged 2 mil lion bales spread on thousands of [...]

Chairman of Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (Prgmea), Ijaz A Khokhar said that textile industry was experiencing its worst energy crisis. He said a demand for cotton consumption [...]

The Central Executive Committee of Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has urged the government to introduce Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) as an alternative buyer to protect the interests of [...]

Country is expected to produce an all-time high cotton crop, potentially reaching 16 million bales in 2011-12 crop seasons. Growers have brought more than 3.2 million hectares or 8.7 million [...]

Tension in the cotton industry over the prices for seed cotton has reached boiling point with farmers expressing growing concern at being paid the minimum price of US$0,85 per kilogramme [...]

Staggeringly high cotton prices will mean that South African consumers will have to fork out extra cash for their clothing. The reason is that the price of raw cotton has [...]