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Related Keywords: America, cotton, farmers, innovaters, research, scientists, sustainable, sustainably, US, Wrangler

Global jeans brand Wrangler has started its new The Wrangler Rooted Collection, a limited edition premium jeans capsule meant to support US sustainably grown cotton in five Southern states. Each piece–the Alabama Jean, the Georgia Jean, the North Carolina Jean, the Tennessee Jean and the Texas Jean–uses fabrics made with cotton grown, milled, then cut and sewn in the United States and treated with a unique wash, as well as trim and patch details featuring the state’s silhouette and other embellishments.

Related Keywords: cotton, Dollar, farmers, government, market currency, RTGS, USD, ZFU, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Farmers Union

The Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) is appealing to the government to peg cotton prices in United States dollars in order to cushion farmers against the reduction in RTGS dollar value.

Cotton prices have remained unchanged since the start of the selling season in May.

ZFU president, Paul Zakariya said cotton should be pegged in US dollars so that farmers are paid at the prevailing interbank market rate since RTGS$1.95/kg has become unsustainable.

Related Keywords: cotton, Cotton Association of India, cotton crop, cotton season, cotton supply, export, farmers, India, production, Slow growth in domestic consumption

Cotton Association of India (CAI) has released its March estimate of the cotton crop for the season 2018-9 beginning from 1st October 2018. The CAI has estimated cotton crop for 2018-19 at 321 lakh bales of 170 kgs each which is lower by 7 lakh bales than its previous estimate of 328 lakh bales made during last month.

Related Keywords: Cottco, cotton, cotton deliveries, farmers, Free Cotton Inputs Scheme, high cost of inputs, wool packs, yields and crop quality

The Government’s Presidential Free Cotton Inputs Scheme has helped the vulnerable marginalised farmers who have been suffering from the high cost of inputs and low producer prices at the same time getting their yields affected by the negative effects of climate change. The farmers have responded positively by “going back to the fields” and are producing cotton whose volume has been constantly growing. Given that the output was on a free fall, the interventions by the Government came at the right.

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: cotton crop, current fiscal, demand for cotton, especially by mills, farmers, fetch relatively higher prices, higher output, increase acreage under cotton, International cotton advisory committee, rising and result in consistent fall in year-end stocks of cotton, sustain remuneration levels

With cotton crop able to fetch relatively higher prices in 2016-17 and is expected to sustain remuneration levels in the current fiscal as demand for cotton, especially by mills, is also rising and is likely to result in a consistent fall in year-end stocks of cotton, according to the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC). Farmers are likely to increase acreage under cotton, resulting in higher output going forward.

Related Keywords: bring change in agriculture sector, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis performed bhoomipujan of Gimatex Industries Private Limited, cotton production, farmers, first Integrated Textile Park in Vidarbha, initiative, Mohota family, new extended spinning unit at Hinganghat, step toward improving the situation, Textile Park, value-added projects

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis performed bhoomipujan of Gimatex Industries Private Limited’s first Integrated Textile Park in Vidarbha and new extended spinning unit at Hinganghat. The first Integrated Textile Park launched in Hinganghtat was the first step toward improving the situation, said the Chief Minister congratulating Mohota family for their initiative. Integrated Textile Park will generate about 2,500 jobs.

Related Keywords: announce a bailout package, besides boosting the textile exports, caused loss of two hundred billion, cotton import due to limited resources, cultivation of cotton on maximum area, during current season, enhance the production of cotton, farmers, ginners to work like a team to motivate the growers, Pakistan cotton production declined, PCGA

Pakistan cotton production has declined by 5,100,000 bales during the current season which has caused loss of Rs200 billion to national kitty. The federal commerce minister Khurram Dastgir Khan expressing serious concern over the decline in cotton production situation of the country assured the delegation of Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) of taking immediate and solid steps as they cannot afford huge losses and cotton import due to limited resources.

Related Keywords: centralized cotton buying system, China Cotton Africa, contract schemes, Cotton Ginners' Association, curb side marketing, farmers, introduced by Zimbabwean cotton merchants, promote monoplistic tendencies

A centralized cotton buying system has been introduced by Zimbabwean cotton merchants to curb side marketing which has become rampant in the industry. Farmers has described the move as an attempt to promote monopolistic tendencies.

The Cotton Ginners' Association, which represents the merchants, is buying the crop on behalf of all ginners, except for China Cotton Africa, and the volumes are shared on a pro rata basis depending on level of investment in the production, industry players said.

Related Keywords: 11 producing states, cotton corporation of India, domestic and international markets, domestic cotton prices, farmers, future cotton demand, higher domestic production, prices of cotton, procure cotton, Sluggish export demand, state of India

Sluggish export demand and anticipated higher domestic production have resulted in rates falling below MSP in few states of India. Minister of State for Agriculture Mohanbhai Kundaria said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha that prices of cotton are below MSP in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra in the current cotton season 2014-15.

The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) will procure cotton from farmers in 11 producing states as the rates have fallen below the minimum support price (MSP) in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra, Parliament was informed today.