Aussie laboratories Au Scott Ltd and Pro Class Pty Ltd have joined the ICA Bremen ‘International Laboratory Certification Scheme’. The scheme aims to establish an approved list of laboratories worldwide that meet a standard level of quality assurance. ICA Bremen has developed the scheme based on American Society for Testing...

A sixteen-member delegation from six African countries is currently exploring the possibility of directly exporting cotton from their countries to Indian textile mills, especially those based in Coimbatore and Tirupur. The delegates from Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Nigeria, Uganda and Malawi, include Government officials as well as private players from...

The minimum price for Brazilian cotton has been increased from 44 Brazilian reals to 54 Brazilian reals per arroba (one arroba equals to 15 kg), said President Dilma Rousseff during a visit to the municipality of Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso. According to a statement issued by the...

Although synthetic fibers are on the rise, quality cotton is still ahead, providing endurance that it offers. Cotton has long been one of the world’s most valuable commodity. It’s one of the 10 largest agricultural products worldwide, and the farming of cotton is a $23 billion global business. This year...

A consortium of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has improved the genome of upland cotton and made it publicly available. The sequence of the species, making up greater than 90 per cent of the world’s spinnable cotton fibre, builds upon genome...

The cotton prices remained firm on Karachi cotton exchange on Tuesday, while the market witnessed less activity. Reduced demand for cotton from the textile sector that is facing liquidity crunch and stiff competition in the world market from regional countries owing to increasing production cost contributed majorly towards market slowdown....