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Related Keywords: San Francisco, zero waste textile

The Zero Waste Textile Initiative launched on Wednesday, is the first effort of its kind in a major U.S. city and will help San Francisco achieve its goal of zero waste by 2020, according to the city department of the Environment. The old clothing and textiles will be reused for making new products.

The common place trios of waste, recycling and composting bins around San Francisco are getting some company at retailers who have partnered with The City to place bins for unwanted clothing, shoes and textiles.

Related Keywords: cotton farming, cotton hub, Gudiyattam, SIMA

Gudiyattam farmers taking up cotton cultivation as the local cooperatives marketing society supporting them by supplying quality seeds from the South Indian Mills Association (SIMA), Coimbatore, and sells them to the farmers on a non-profit basis. Also their marketing which follows transparency and quick payment has motivated a large number of farmers.

Gudiyattam is emerging as a cotton hub, thanks to the support from the local cooperatives marketing society.

Related Keywords: cotton industry, cotton prices, trading activity

With ginners asking higher prices for quality lint amid firm demand from millers, trading activity on Wednesday cotton market failed to gain momentum.

Brokers said that prices remained on the higher side due to tight phutti supply and strong demand for lint from spinners. They added that presently phutti stocked by growers is finding its way to ginneries, otherwise, very little has been left behind in the cotton fields.

Related Keywords: cotton production, Sodecoton

Société de développement du coton (Sodecoton) heads has decided to revamp cotton production for which a target at 240,000 tonnes of cotton production have been set for 2014, compared to 210,000 in 2013.

To accomplish this, the management of the agro-industry’s gem in the northern region of Cameroon plans to buy cotton from producers this year to persuade them against selling their crops to Nigeria. This fraudulent activity is also supported by Sodecton itself.

Related Keywords: Handloom weavers, NREGA

Handloom weaving, the centuries-old art is dying a slow death because weavers are unable to make ends meet. The number of India's handloom weavers is on the decline as low remuneration and rising costs are making traditional worker look to other trades. The government has finally woken up to their problems.

Textiles Ministry is working on a proposal to include handloom weavers under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) so that they can be entitled to higher wages.

Related Keywords: organic cotton, Turkey

Turkey is the largest producer of organic cotton in the world today and is gaining more and more perception regarding organic cotton production to create a global brand in organic cotton production.

According to Turkish Nazilli Cotton Research Station’s manager Sadettin Ozturk, Turkey have most suitable weather condition which strongly supports organic cotton farming.

Since 1990s, Turkey has been gradually transcending into a stage of producing organic cotton and slowly the country has become synonymous with organic cotton.

Related Keywords: wool, wool prices

The first wool sale of the year last week in Napier saw a large offering of wool where prices improved from levels seen at Christmas. There were 15,000 bales sold and that was a good sign that there's plenty of demand out there. At the moment, it is a bit of a level and looking forward to see further gain in wool prices, Elders Primary Wool national wool manager Simon Averill said.

Related Keywords: Chinese yarn makers, cotton price, Textile Industry

Chinese yarn makers have started shifting production overseas to secure cheaper raw materials, even going as far afield as the United States. The world's largest, firms such as Hong Kong-listed Texhong Textile Group and Shanghai-listed Bros Eastern Co are also leading the charge abroad, crippled by artificially high prices for cotton at home

Related Keywords: California cotton, cotton varieties

The two benchmark cotton varieties, PhytoGen 72, the benchmark for Acala cotton, and PhytoGen 800, its Pima cousin, are in short supply with the company and will no longer be offered once supplies are exhausted. For the PHY800, this could be more important, according to DOW spokesman Fred Rehrman, because it has continued to be popular with some growers. But this should not hamper growers as varieties with advanced technologies have long been available.

Related Keywords: cotton growth, cotton industry, Egypt

The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of Egypt has announced that this year it is planning to allocate 367,566 feddans for cotton cultivation. The cotton-cultivated area last agricultural season was 367,566 feddans; however, the cotton was grown in only 250,000 of 350,000 feddans projected.

In a statement, the ministry said that the projected area was announced in an official report issued by the General Administration for Pest Control. The report was then proposed to the Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation Farid Abo Hadid.