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For Mississippi farmers cotton is king once again as they are going to increase their cotton acreage this year, about 25 percent over last year. Last year, they increased about 25 percent over the previous year. In total over the past two years they have increased almost 50 percent, said cotton producer.

Related Keywords: cotton producer, hurt pace of growth, negative move, oppose merger of textile ministry, Pakistan textile exporters association, textile exports, Textile Industry, with commerce

Pakistan textile exporters strongly opposing the proposed merger of textile ministry with commerce terming it a negative move which would hurt the pace of growth in textile exports and would push textile industry on back gear.

Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) leaders expressed concerns over the proposed merger of textile ministry into commerce ministry and said that Pakistan has dynamic, vigorous and export-oriented textile industry that has an overwhelming impact on national economy.

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: cotton producer, Ethipian textile industry, national enterprise, raw cotton, shortage of raw material supply, textile companies, textile industries, Textile industry development institute

As the number of companies engaged in the textile industry has been increasing, the Ethiopian Textiles Industry Development Institute plans to set up a national enterprise that will help create linkage between cotton producers and textile industries.

Institute Director-General, Sileshi Lemma, said that the Enterprise will have the mandate to purchase, sell and store raw cotton. It is aimed at addressing challenges related to shortage of raw material supply.

This will help realize the country's plan to make the nation a preferable destination for textile companies.

Related Keywords: Australian and US cotton industry, Cotton LEADS program, cotton producer, fabric fiber, global cotton textile, growing practices, supply chain, textile businesses

Cotton LEADS, a joint program established by Australian and U.S. cotton industries, which is designed to advocates and raise awareness of the responsible growing practices and commitment to continuous improvement among cotton producers for the popular fabric fiber was launched in October of 2013 gets support of more than 200 textile businesses across the global cotton textile supply chain.
 

Related Keywords: apparel industry, Arvind, cotton producer, global brand, Indian Textile, Raymonds, textile manufacturer, Vardhman

Indian textile and apparel industry is known across the globe as it happens to be among the biggest cotton producer in the world, is one of the largest textile manufacturer with companies like Arvind, Vardhman, Raymonds, Bombay Rayon producing and supplying world class fabrics to most major global brands such as Diesel, H&M, Zara, M&S among others. It also has some of the biggest garment manufacturers such as Shahi, Eastman, Pratibha supplying to top global brands. But despite this, garment manufacturers fail to create a global brand.