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Related Keywords: cotton industry, cotton products, fibres, H&M Group, Monki, organic cotton, renewable energy, Scandinavian womenswear brand, Street Style, wholly sustainably sourced cotton

A large part of Monki’s brand DNA is its initiative to make its business more sustainable. Monki’s 115 brick-and-mortar stores offers garment recycling and are powered by renewable energy and it’s current addition of wholly sustainably sourced cotton includes organic and recycled cotton, as well as a use of the Better Cotton Initiative, a non-profit that aims to improve the cotton industry for both workers and the environment.

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Cotton Australia chief executive Adam Kay said award recipients excelled in their field. He said that, “The one thing all the recipients have in common is that they are constantly testing the boundaries of what can be achieved in their respective fields.” “Whether it’s making improvements to sustainability and water efficiency on farm, delivering crucial new research to farmers, making outstanding contributions to industry or leading the next generation of cotton growers, they’re all making significant advancements.

Related Keywords: boost value addition, building partnership, cotton industry, Firms from China, industry value chain, Kenya Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Kenyan government, Kenyan agriculture ministry, Members, roll out investments, set up textile factories, set up value addition hubs, Turkey and Brazil, various stages of discussion

Firms from China, Turkey and Brazil are are at various stages of discussion with the Kenyan government to roll out investments to set up value addition hubs in the cotton industry, according to the Kenyan agriculture ministry.

Members of the Kenya Chinese Chamber of Commerce are, for instance, expected to set up textile factories to boost value addition.

Related Keywords: cotton industry, cultivated one feddan of land, Effort to revive Egypts, Egypts unique climate, Farmers at Fayoum province, farmers enlarge area planted with cotton, fertile soil, finest long-staple cotton, Giza 95, help stagnant economy, ideal for cotton cultivation, luxury and quality

In an effort to revive the Egypt’s rewarding cotton industry that can help its stagnant economy, the farmers enlarge the area planted with cotton. Farmers at Fayoum province, some 100 km south of Cairo, cultivated one feddan (1 feddan=1.038 acres) of land with the finest long-staple cotton (known in Egypt as Giza 95). He will double his cotton field next year.

The farmers said that the ministry of agriculture helps them by providing subsided seeds and fertilizers necessary for the treatment of the plants to get high-quality cotton.

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Oritain Global, a supply chain specialist is looking to capitalize on the high level of current interest to improve transparency and traceability of cotton supply line for which it plans to implement its ‘fingerprint’ identification technology, currently used in the food, fibre and pharmaceutical industry.

Related Keywords: closed operations, cotton industry, cotton trading, Karachi Cotton Exchange on Wednesday, majority of mills, off season, recording only one transaction, remained slow, spot rates remained unchanged, two thousand bales from Shujabad

Cotton trading remained slow at the Karachi Cotton Exchange on Wednesday recording only one transaction of 2,000 bales from Shujabad at the rate of Rs6,900/maund, while spot rates remained unchanged.

The spot rates stood firm at Rs6,750/maund (37.324kg) and Rs7,234/40kg. Ex-Karachi rates also remained unchanged at Rs6,885/maund and Rs7,379/40kg after an addition of Rs135 and Rs145 as upcountry expenses, respectively.

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: Aaron Goddard, almost thirty nine first time growers, cotton growing, cotton industry, cotton price, Landmark Gunnedah agronomist, lot of first time grower for cotton, on the increase, This season in the upper Namoi region

This season in the upper Namoi region cotton growing is on the increase as there’s been a lot of first time grower for cotton almost 39 first time growers, said Landmark Gunnedah agronomist Aaron Goddard.

Especially dryland because the sorghum price has been quite low mostly, while the cotton price has been okay. So long as they had the moisture in the soil, they’ll give it a go for the first time, he said.

Related Keywords: anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technology, Applied DNA sciences, authentication service, brands and retailers, cotton industry, Intiative drive to exclude adulteration, offering molecular tagging, product authentication solutions, product genotyping, provider of DNA-based supply chain, supply chain to allow traceability for fiber, Uzbek cotton

As an intiative drive to exclude adulteration in the cotton industry, Applied DNA Sciences, a provider of DNA-based supply chain, anti-counterfeiting and anti-theft technology, product genotyping and product authentication solutions; is offering molecular tagging and authentication service to brands and retailers.

The platform is based on a SigNature T molecular tag, applied at the point where locally grown cotton is ginned, and forensically authenticated at each stage of the supply chain to allow traceability for fibres to finished goods back to their origin

Related Keywords: cotton corporation of India, cotton crop in the Malwa belt, cotton industry, Cotton yield received boost, covered under cotton production, expecting increase production, farmers getting lucrative prices, higher prices of the white gold, quality and yield of cotton crop has improved, steep fall in area, surpassing last year production figures

The cotton yield has received a boost as 6.6 lakh bales (each weighing 140 kg) of cotton have been procured so far surpassing last year’s production figures of 6.5 lakh bales.

Last year, whitefly destroyed more than 60% of the cotton crop in the Malwa belt. Despite the steep fall in the area covered under cotton production to 2.48 lakh hectares in 2016-17 from 4.5 lakh hectare in 2015-16 as growers feared a possibility of pest attack, the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is expecting production of 8.75 lakh bales this year after a year of despair and heavy financial losses.