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Related Keywords: 000 in 2017, 000 metric tons in 2012, AICC in Malawi, around 15, cotton input supply, cotton farming, farm inputs, farmers, gone down from 100, Malawi cotton production, revive the industry, the African Institute of Corporate Citizenship, urged government to make investment, US$4.8 million into cotton farming, verge of collapsing

Malawi’s cotton production has gone down from 100,000 metric tons in 2012 to around 15,000 in 2017, to revive the industry which it says is at the verge of collapsing, the African Institute of Corporate Citizenship (AICC) in Malawi has urged the government to make investment of US$4.8 million (about K3.5 billion) into cotton farming, said AICC Chief Executive Officer Felix Lombe on Wednesday in Mzuzu.

Related Keywords: biggest exporter, cotton cultivators, cotton farming, cotton industry, heavily dependent on imports, high costs of machinery and equipment, Iran, Iranian textile industry, low price cotton imports, meet domestic cotton demand, not affordable, size of farms for cotton cultivation, strategic and all purpose product, Uzbekistan

Iran is heavily dependent on imports to meet the domestic cotton demand, which is a strategic and all purpose product in Iranian textile industry. Iran imported over 56,517 tons of cotton worth $103 million during the 11 months to Feb 19. Uzbekistan was the biggest exporter.

Related Keywords: a local cotton growing company, Belize, budding sea island cotton industry, cotton crop yeids are much higher, cotton farming, Government of Japan, harvesting and processing cotton, ICA Belize, Japan handed over two tractors, Japanese knowledgeable, provides additional grant assistance, requires different kinds of equipment

The Government of Japan provides additional assistance to budding Sea Island Cotton industry, Belize. Cotton crop yields are much higher than any other agricultural product in Belize, including sugar cane, but cotton farming requires different kinds of equipment. The Japanese, who are knowledgeable in the harvesting and processing of cotton, has offered this kind of support, as well as the equipment to produce cotton.

Related Keywords: cotton farming, National Cotton Council, NCC survey, smallest cotton acreage, US cotton farmers, weak market price, worlds biggest exporter

The National Cotton Council (NCC) expects cotton farming in the world's biggest exporter to fall to 9.4 million acres in 2015. That would be the smallest cotton acreage since 2009, according to U.S. government data.

U.S. cotton farmers are expected to reduce acreage by nearly 15 percent this year as weak market prices force them to switch to other crops.

The NCC survey, widely watched as one of the earliest indicators of the next season's production, is based on a questionnaire mailed in mid-December to producers across the 17-state cotton belt.

Related Keywords: apparel, begin in Nagpur, cotton farming, delegation from Bangladesh and China, end-use industry, focus on cotton, International textile conference, organized by, progressive cotton growers, Textile, Textile Association of India

The 12th international textile conference organized by Textile Association of India (TAI) kicked off today in Nagpur. The event will be held for two days, January 17 and 18. The meeting will have 50 speakers, including delegates from Bangladesh and China. Representatives of almost 200 companies in this sector will take part in the event, said a TAI official.

Related Keywords: cotton exporter, cotton farming, Cotton processing, cotton producer, finished textile goods, moving away, profitable, raw cotton, Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan textile industry, X International Uzbek Cotton and Textile Fair

Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country has started focusing on production of finished textile goods rather than of raw cotton. It is slowly trying to transition away from its traditional strength of cotton farming going on for generations. As, cotton farming requires a huge amount of water, a great difficulty for dry Uzbekistan.

Though the Uzbek economic picture has evolved, cotton remains key crop. Last year, the area planted under crops in Uzbekistan totalled almost 3.6m ha for which cotton occupied 1.3m ha, about 36%.

Related Keywords: AGOA, anti-dumping measures, cotton farming, cotton sector, EPZ textile companies, Kenyan textile industry, labour intensive value chain, liberalisation policies, mitumba, Rivatex, second hand clothes, WTO

Kenyan textile industry was flourishing in the 1980s before the influx of ‘mitumba’ into the country. Companies such as Rivatex offered jobs and clothed Kenyans in new clothes while Cotton farming in Nyanza and Western gave farmers a livelihood and provided cotton for the sector. This labour intensive value chain employed many Kenyans and significantly contributed to the fiscal revenue through taxes payable by the companies. Liberalisation policies followed a short while later and killed the sector.

Related Keywords: cotton farmers, cotton farmers in China, cotton farmers in India, cotton farmers in Pakistan, cotton farming, CottonConnect, global cotton, World Water Week

As World Water Week kicks off in Stockholm, 31st August to 5th September 2014, CottonConnect warns that more support is needed for smallholder cotton farmers as they grapple with the effects of water scarcity, which could put the global cotton industry at serious risk.

Related Keywords: cotton farming, Largest cotton producer, plastic mulch technology, soil residue

China the world’s top cotton producer in 1980s adopted plastic mulch technology, domestic agrotechnicians hailed it as a "white innovation." As film-mulched cotton fields have higher soil temperatures and conserve more moisture than normal land due to the greenhouse effect, which improves seeding, growth and yield. After 30 years of fanatical use of mulch films and inadequate attention to the problems of film residue, agrotechnicians said that the country's cotton fields have been hit hard by plastic pollution.

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.