http://www.yarnsandfibers.com YarnsandFibers Cotton News en bharati@yarnsandfibers.com YarnsandFibers Sun, 25 May 2008 23:45:06 -0600 Sun, 25 May 2008 23:45:06 -0600 http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15417 Cotton Fri, 23 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Southern India Mills Association, the largest association of spinning mills in south India has appealed to the Union Government to regulate cotton exports. This is to ensure that the bu... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15414 Cotton Thu, 22 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The Maharashtra government has fixed the price of genetically modified Bt cotton seeds at 750 rupees for a 450 gram packet, it said on Wednesday. This is the maximum price that seed companies can ch... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15413 Cotton Thu, 22 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 With the Cotton Advisory Board estimating a record and bumper cotton production of 315 lakh bales in the 2007-08 season, the Southern India Mills' Association (SIMA) on Thursday appealed to the Centre... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15406 Cotton Wed, 21 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The Maharashtra government has fixed the price of genetically modified Bt cotton seeds at 750 rupees for a 450 gram packet, it said on Wednesday. This is the maximum price that seed com... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15403 Cotton Wed, 21 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The Punjab government has fixed a production target of 11 million cotton bales for this season, The News has learnt. According to the Cotton Strategy for Productivity Enhancement and Wo... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15401 Cotton Wed, 21 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Prices were firm on the cotton market on Tuesday as in the late evening on Monday, prices touched the historical level at Rs 4,000, dealers said. The Karachi Cotton Association official spot rate was ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15398 Cotton Wed, 21 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Mr M. Karunanidhi, has written to the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, to draw his attention on the problems faced by the States textile industry. He h... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15397 Cotton Tue, 20 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Spot prices of the Shankar 6 variety of cotton have rallied sharply to reach the highest ever in the current season in 2007-08 (October-September). The prices in Gujarat markets have shot up by around... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15396 Cotton Tue, 20 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 India's cotton production may rise to about 34.7 million bales in the year ending September 2009, a senior textile ministry official said on Tuesday. The production outlook is 10 perc... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15395 Cotton Tue, 20 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Select cotton prices today rallied by Rs 400 per candy (355.62 kgs) on brisk spinners and exporters demand in the face of paucity of ready stocks, traders at the East India Cotton Association said. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15394 Cotton Tue, 20 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Turkeys cotton bourse is going through tough times due to stagnation in demand, deriving from increasing cotton and yarn imports as well as global warming. Cotton producers are worried they will not ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15380 Cotton Mon, 19 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Chinas cotton demand is expected to fall due to an earthquake in the nations southwestern province of Sichuan that caused a negative impact on the textile industry in the province. Mo... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15375 Cotton Sun, 18 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Egypt's Arabia Cotton Ginning posted a 68 percent drop in net profit for the nine months to end-March at 47.3 million Egyptian pounds, the stock market said on Sunday. Egypt's biggest l... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15374 Cotton Sat, 17 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 USDA cotton export sales highlights for latest reporting week. Net Upland sales of 228,900 running bales were down 59 percent from the previous week and 39 percent from the prior 4-week average. Inc... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15371 Cotton Sat, 17 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Cotton lint prices maintained a steady trend and textile mills continue to buy their requirements even with the present high prices in order to meet their cotton needs, said the South India Cotton Ass... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15366 Cotton Fri, 16 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 While ready prices for the current crop (2007-2008) were recorded at highest ever level at Rs 3,700 per maund (37.32 kgs) when 2,200 bales from Bagh-o-Bhar (Khanpur) in Punjab were sold last fortnight... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15359 Cotton Wed, 14 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 South India Small Spinners Association (Sisspa) has said that the abnormal increase in cotton prices and steep fall in textile exports in recent times due to hardening rupee have left many spinners in... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15348 Cotton Tue, 13 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Cotton sowing has been delayed for at least one month in the Tarbela Dam Command Area of Punjab due to 65 percent water shortage of its irrigation needs. Punjab Water Council Convenor Farooque Bajwa t... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15344 Cotton Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 China will import a smaller quantity of cotton during the sector's fiscal year 2007, which ends in August, an industry official said on Wednesday. Cotton imports will fall because the s... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15340 Cotton Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 With decreasing ready stocks of cotton from the current crop (2007-08) remaining unsold with the ginners and the forthcoming season (2008-09) still several months away before it can provide sizeable s... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15339 Cotton Fri, 09 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The cotton hedge trading has been resumed on Karachi Cotton Exchange after a gap of 32 years with the finalisation of a deal of 200 bales of the 2008-09 crop for August delivery. Market sources told B... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15337 Cotton Thu, 08 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 There is a little possibility that China cotton prices will fluctuate sharply because supply in the nation can meet demand basically in 2008, according to a forum held in the eastern Chinese city of ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15331 Cotton Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The cotton growing areas of Punjab and Sindh are facing acute water shortage for the sowing of cotton crop which is the backbone of countrys economy. Wapda officials told Business Recorder here on Tu... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15330 Cotton Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 T.K. Rengarajan, MP, has written a letter to Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath seeking a ban on export of waste cotton. In his letter, Mr. Rengarajan said 25,000 families were dependa... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15329 Cotton Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 South India Cotton Association (SICA) has sought the extension of the technology mission on cotton (TMC), the Central Government-sponsored programme aimed at developing Indiaandapos;s raw cotton bas... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15328 Cotton Wed, 07 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Price control on Bt cotton seed prices is likely to hit the cotton growing community in Gujarat. While the state government is trying to ensure that the commodity is available in the mar... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15323 Cotton Tue, 06 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The cotton crop arrivals at the ginneries across the country have been recorded at 11.352 million bales up to May 1, 2008, showing a shortfall of 8.52 percent as compared to last year. Last year, arri... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15319 Cotton Tue, 06 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Australia's cotton output will almost triple next year as farmers expand their fields, which have received beneficial rains, the U.S. Agriculture Department said. Production may soar to... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15317 Cotton Tue, 06 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Fine lint remained in demand amid steady spot rate at the Karachi cotton market on Monday, traders said. They said the market witnessed a moderate activity on back of higher demand and ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15316 Cotton Tue, 06 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Price control on Bt cotton seed prices is likely to hit the cotton growing community in Gujarat. While the state government is trying to ensure that the commodity is available in the market at a red... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15315 Cotton Mon, 05 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 A massive fire broke out outside a textile processing unit of Chiripal Group in Piplaj near Ahmedabad Monday evening, gutting about 100,000 cotton bales. No casualty was reported. “The massive fire is... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15305 Cotton Mon, 05 May 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The cotton crop arrivals at the ginneries across the country have been recorded at 11.352 million bales up to May 1, 2008, showing a shortfall of 8.52 percent as compared to last year. Last year, arri... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15291 Cotton Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The States contribution to the countrys cotton production has gone up to 40 per cent from 17 per cent. Gandhinagar, April 17 Inclement weather witnessed a couple of weeks ago in Gujara... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15284 Cotton Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The Haryana government today said that Bt cotton is likely to cover 90 per cent of the total area under cotton cultivation in the state this year, as the particular variety is becoming popular among f... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15283 Cotton Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The average cotton price in China reached 13,921 yuan (US$1,991)/ton in March, up one per cent on month and 6.7 per cent on year, according to CNCotton. A report publicized by the Nation... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15274 Cotton Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The Karachi cotton market observed a dull trading session on Wednesday as fine lint remained in focus while spot rates were unchanged, traders said. A senior trader, Ghulam Rabbani said the Karachi... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15268 Cotton Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The Madurai Spinners Association has asked the centre to stop exporting cotton waste as it had led to crisis and closure of many units. Till the concept of open end spinning (OES) emerge... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15251 Cotton Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Efforts of textile majors in north India towards bringing about a 'White Gold Revolution' in Punjab have got a shot in the arm as 70 villages of the state adopted by corporates have attained 37 per ce... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15240 Cotton Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Cotton prices in the global market are likely to surge by over 8% to 80 cents per pound in 2008-09, triggered by the price trend of competing crops like soyabeans, corn, wheat and other oilseeds, the ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15239 Cotton Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Fine lint continued to remain in strong demand amid firm spots rate at the Karachi Cotton Association (KCA), traders said on Wednesday. A senior trader, Ghulam Rabbani said the spot rates... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15238 Cotton Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 This afternoon, a huge fire destroyed completely a cotton recycling plant on San Sebastian neighborhood, district 8, from El Alto city. According to preliminary report given by the chief o... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15237 Cotton Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 The government is likely to snip import duty on cotton as part of a package to sew up fibre costs for local cloth mills. This package would be in addition to allowing cotton imported at zero duty from... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15236 Cotton Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 All Pakistan Textile Mills Association Punjab Chairman Akber Sheikh has appealed to the prime minister to ensure supply of quality seeds to farmers for the current cotton crop sowing season. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15233 Cotton Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Analysts on Wednesday called the U.S. Department of Agriculture's April supply-and-demand report results mostly unsurprising for cotton and said the market would look to Chicago Board of Trade grains ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15226 Cotton Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Cotton prices in the global market are likely to surge by 8.10 per cent to 80 cents per pound in 2008-09, triggered by the price trend of competing crops like soybeans, corn, wheat and other oilseeds,... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15225 Cotton Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 More than 11.33 million bales of cotton have reached ginneries across the country till April 01, 2008, says a fortnightly report issued by Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) here. ... http://www.yarnsandfibers.com/news/index_fullstory.php3?id=15223 Cotton Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:00 -0600 Analysts expect the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lower its forecast for U.S. cotton exports due to sluggish export sales and to bump production higher on recently released ginnings data when it i...