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Kenya to start growing GM cotton commercially

Kenya on Wednesday announced plans to start commercial growing of Bt cotton, or genetically modified (GM) cotton. Charles Waturu, Principal…

5 years ago

Egypt to scale up cotton cultivation and exports back

Egypt plans to scale its cotton cultivation back. Nabil al-Santaricy, head of the Alexandria Cotton Exporters Association, referring to long-staple…

7 years ago

This season cotton planting in terms of area almost double

Owing to favourable climatic conditions and high pricing of cotton , the planting of cotton crop has doubled in terms…

7 years ago

Pak cotton cultivation witnesses 18pc rise in current sowing season

The Pakistan government has fixed a target to cultivate the cotton crop over an area of 3.11 million hectares during…

7 years ago

Pak raises cotton subsidies issue by big cotton growing countries at WTO

Problems of farmers in Pakistan and other developing countries cannot be resolved as long as the farmers are made to…

8 years ago

Telangana CM urge farmers to stay away from growing cotton for the year

The Telangana CM K Chandrasekhara Rao has urged the farmers not to grow cotton but sow an alternative crop this…

8 years ago

Ethiopian textile Industry undergoing major development

Ethiopian textile industry aided by the availability of a skilled and highly motivated workforce is undergoing major development. This surge…

8 years ago

HempFlax invests EUR 5mn to support hemp cultivation and processing in Romania

HempFlax, a Dutch company leader on the hemp processing segment, has invested EUR 5 million in hemp growing and processing…

9 years ago

Egypt cotton cultivation to dwindle further with the end of subsidy to growers

Egyptian cotton, the so-called “white gold” a byword for luxury that is prominent the world over and also the former…

9 years ago

Bananatex®, world’s first technical fabric made purely from banana plants

Our recent interaction with Hannes Schoenegger, Co-founder and chief executive officer of Bananatex, talks about the company’s innovative textile material…

1 year ago