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Related Keywords: 5 of them have successfully passed state tests, Agriculture Ministry, cotton varieties to eleven countries, country is now exporting, currently has 10 varieties, its own way back in 1991, Kazakhstan, not have single cotton variety, production of new domestic varieties, yield of raw cotton is 22-23 centners per hectare

Kazakhstan did not have a single cotton variety of its own way back in 1991, but currently the country has 10 varieties and 5 of them have successfully passed state tests, The country is now exporting its cotton varieties to 11 countries — Russia, Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Moldova, China, Belgium, Iran, Ukraine, Italy and Korea, said Askar Nametov, chairman of the board of the National Agrarian Scientific-Educational Centre under the agriculture ministry.

Related Keywords: Agriculture Ministry, Bangladesh government, Begum Matia Chowdhury, Expansion of Cotton Cultivation Project, garment factories, modern cotton cultivation, o export readymade garments, project initiated to increase cotton production, provided training to over sixty thousand farmers, replace Indian cotton imports, set up demonstrations plot

Bangladesh government has set up 3,050 demonstrations plot for a project which has been initiated to increase cotton production for which they have provided training to over 60,000 farmers in modern cotton cultivation, said Begum Matia Chowdhury, agriculture ministry of the country.

Chowdhury also added that the government has initiated multiple programmes and projects such as Expansion of Cotton Cultivation Project (Phase-1) which was undertaken in financial year 2014-15 at an investment of Taka 105 crore.

Related Keywords: Agriculture Ministry, cotton, evamped Technology Mission, file data on quality and quantity, first two with cotton productivity, four part mission, ginning to garmenting, Kavita Gupta, Textile Commissioner, Textile Ministry, third and fourth missions, thrust to cotton sector, under Textile Ministry

The Textile Ministry is looking to introduce a revamped Technology Mission on Cotton said Textile Commissioner Kavita Gupta. The mission will have four parts. The first two will deal with cotton productivity and will come under the Agriculture Ministry. The third and fourth missions will be under the Textile Ministry. This initiative is to give a thrust to the cotton sector.

Related Keywords: advises government on pricing policy, Agriculture Ministry, boost jute production, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, cultivation declining in recent years, inflationary trends, major farm produces, Niti Aayog pitched for marginal increase, proposed hike in MSP, raw jute, statutory body, Textile Ministry

The Agriculture Ministry in order to boost jute production has proposed hike in minimum support price (MSP) of raw jute because its cultivation has been declining in the recent year.

In the Cabinet note, Agriculture Ministry has proposed an 18.5 percent increase in jute MSP to ₹3,200 a quintal for 2016-17, which is in line with the CACP’s recommendation, according to sources.

In 2015-16, the jute support price was fixed at ₹2,700.