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Related Keywords: brand of Fashion Textile, centre of ethnic wear, Dream come true project, leading textile exhibition, Lucknow, Surat Dreams, Surat textile market, Triveni Sarees

Surat Dreams, leading textile exhibition that provides a grand platform to the people of textile to explore the opportunities beyond the boundaries of Surat. Surat Dreams is a Dream Come True project with the intention to make Surat Textile Market successful.

The two day textile exhibition to be held in Lucknow, UP one of the best known centres of ethnic wear. It is likely to see the participation of over 4,000 shopkeepers from across the country.

Related Keywords: CTG, fashion sector, Federal Executive council, garment parks, integrated textile, National Industry Revolution Plan, Nigerian cotton, textile sector

Nigerian cotton and textile sector once was actually the second largest employer of labour and a critical sector of the economy. There has been a decline due to a number of factors. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved policy measures aimed at repositioning the nation’s cotton, textile, garment (CTG), and fashion sectors of the economy.

Related Keywords: concession, load factor incentives, power tariff, seperate tariff, SIMA, Southern India, special treatment, TANGEDCO, Textile Industry

The textile industry of Southern India are demanding a separate tariff or load factor incentive as the textile industry is the highest consumer of TANGEDCO and thus deserves to have a special treatment and concession.

The textile industry runs round-the-clock throughout year and consumes 900-950 units of power for one hour for every MW thus enabling TANGEDCO to make substantial profit when compared to any other consumer.

The new power tariff would seriously affect the competitiveness of the textile mills in Tamil Nadu across the value chain.

Related Keywords: Arvind Ltd, Creyate, custom made clothes, e-commerce, expansion plan, omnichannel, online shopping, retail formats, stores in India

With custom made clothing in huge demand these days, the textile and apparel company,Arvind Ltd., seeks to increase the turnover of his company to Rs.100 crore by expanding its retail outlet Creyate, in over 15 cities in India.

Over the next three years, it seeks to grow its offerings on the Internet, where increasingly a large population of shoppers in India have been logging on to buy goods online.

Related Keywords: better quality crop, bottomed out, China, Cotton Association of India, cotton exporters, cotton exports, cotton price, cotton yarn, decline, DGFT, import restriction, Indian cotton inrdustry, raw cotton, weakening rupee, Zhejiang Textiles

India is expected to become the world’s largest cotton exporter this year, but cotton exports are expected to see a decline to around 5 million (480 lb) bales in 2014-15, almost 47% from the previous year as it has been hit by import restrictions in China, the world’s largest importer. This has also led to a decline in prices in India as well.

Cotton prices may have bottomed out but a weakening rupee and arrival of better quality crop likely to improve prospects.

Related Keywords: have taken advantage of the initiative to boost their trade with the US., Kenya and Lesotho, particularly South Africa, Ugandans textile industry at one time booming has remained in an indeterminate state despite incentives such as America's African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) while some African countries

Ugandans textile industry at one time booming has remained in an indeterminate state despite incentives such as America's African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) while some African countries, particularly South Africa, Kenya and Lesotho, have taken advantage of the initiative to boost their trade with the US.

Related Keywords: AEPC, buyers, certification procedures, Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council, fabrics, finished textile products, garments organic certification, Global Organic Textile Standard, made-ups, mandatory, NPOP, raw cotton export, Textile exporters, yarn

Raw cotton export already required certification under the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP). It is now required of any finished textile product exported as an organic one such as yarn, fabrics, made-ups and garments as the government has made it mandatory.

R K Dalmia, Chairman, The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council said that national standard for organic cotton is a welcome move but the manner in which it is being implemented will create havoc in the organic textile industry and lead to loss of export business.

Related Keywords: China, cotton growing area, Cotton market, cotton prices, Cotton Yield, increasing cotton export, Lian Weiliang, low profitability, National Bureau of statistics, National Development and Reform Commission, nationwide modern logistics system, new purchase, sale mechanism, supply gap, temporary purchasing policy

With the growing area of cotton in China this year depleting by 2.9 percent in 2014 has resulted fall in cotton yield. The cotton yield has dropped by 2.2 percent year on year to 6.16 million tonnes, as per National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Nationwide, cotton land has declined 2.9 percent in 2014 from the previous year to 63.29 million mu, about 4.2 million hectares.

Related Keywords: approves, capitalize benefits, creating roads, entire supply chain, for Geotextiles Material application, geotechnical textiles, globally proven technology, infrastructure, market development support, NER, scheme for promoting, Textile Ministry, use of geotextile

The North Eastern region with a young Himalaya range is prone to landslides, high seismic activity and weak soil conditions. The geotextiles technology shall prove an apt solution for such conditions. The Ministry of Textiles keeping this in view has approved a ‘Scheme for promoting usage of geotechnical textiles in north east region (NER)’ in order to capitalize on the benefits of geotechnical textiles.

The use of this modern and globally proven technology will help in creating roads and infrastructure in north east (NE) which will require less maintenance and shall have longer life.

Related Keywords: Buyers Meeting, collaborate, economic growth, employment, global buyers, GSP Plus status, IFC, ILO, improving productivity, international bodies, Netherland, Pakistan textile industry, practice in textile industry, technical assistance, uphold international standard

Pakistan understanding the importance of garment and textile industry to its economic growth, and the employment it create for its people which reduces poverty for millions of workers. Pakistan and the Netherlands along with other international bodies have collaborated to uphold international standards and practices in textile and garment industry.

In this regard, the first buyers’ meeting was held in Pakistan on December 15-16 with the support of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).