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Related Keywords: Africas top cotton grower, Burkina Faso, by as much as twenty percent, price for the new season set, rains are favorable and well distributed over the season, see surge in cotton output, target is realistic and achievable, this season

Africa’s top cotton grower Burkina Faso to see surge in cotton output by as much as 20 percent in the 2017-18 season to 820,00 metric tons, an industry official in Burkina Faso said.

The target is realistic and achievable if rains are favorable and well distributed over the season and if parasites are kept under control, Georges Yameogo, general secretary of the nation’s cotton association said.

The price for the new season was set at 245 CFA Francs ($0.40) a kilogram up from 235 Francs the previous season. The costs of fertilizers, insecticides and seeds remain unchanged.

Related Keywords: Baluchari, Baluchari silk, chief minister to inaugurate the brands flagship store, mentored and designed by designer Abhiskek Dutta, save a dying textile art of the state, set to launch third premium fashion designer brand, West Bengal government

The West Bengal government to save a dying textile art of the state is set to launch its third premium fashion designer brand ‘Baluchari’ being mentored and designed by designer Abhiskek Dutta after success with Biswa Bangla and Club Muslin. The chief minister is expected to inaugurate the brand's flagship store in Kolkata's high street Park Street soon.

Besides saris, the fashion brand will also launch shoes, bags, wallets, belts and furnishing all using silk. It will also help to revive the art of making Baluchari silk from districts of Bankura and Purulia.

Related Keywords: All Pakistan Textile Mills Association, BoI, collaboration with different chambers of commerce, FDI flow, focus on textile and steel industries, organize road shows, Pakistan Board of Investment, stimulate foreign direct investment

The Board of Investment (BOI) to stimulate foreign direct investment (FDI) flow into the country with focus on textile and steel industries in collaboration with different chambers of commerce and All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) will be organizing road shows.

Under the new work plan, road shows will be held in China, Germany and other major economies in coming months, said BOI spokesman Shah Jahan.

They expect huge foreign investment from different groups because of prudent policies, believing foreign investors were keen to invest in Pakistan.

Related Keywords: company owned outlet, H&M, Hennes & Mauritz AB, InOrbit Mall, international fashion retailer, opened sixteenth and first store in Hyderabad, set to increase its strength in India, Swedish multinational clothing retail company, twenty plus stores

H&M (Hennes & Mauritz AB), the Swedish multinational clothing retail company and international fashion retailer opened its 16th and first store in Hyderabad on Saturday. The company-owned outlet will occupy two floors spread over 33,000 sq ft in InOrbit Mall.

Janne Einola. Its country manager said that H&M, which entered India 18 months ago, has been doing well. They earned₹194 crore with a modest profit of ₹1.4 crore in 2015-16 through Indian operations and is set to increase its strength in India to 20-plus stores by opening half a dozen new ones by December 2017.

Related Keywords: Both sides discussed status and prospects, cooperation in the field of textiles, Fourth meeting of the Kazakh-Indian Joint Working Group, further development of cooperation in textiles, interact with businessmen, JWG, Mayor office of the South Kazakhstan region, organized with support of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in India

The fourth meeting of the Kazakh-Indian Joint Working Group (JWG) for cooperation in the field of textiles was organized with the support of the Embassy of Kazakhstan in India and the Mayor's office of the South Kazakhstan region on April 20 and April 21 in the southern Kazakhstan city of Shymkent.

The 11-member Kazakh side was led by B. Jamalov - Deputy Akim (Governor) of the South Kazakhstan region, and Co-Chairman of the JWG, while the five-member Indian delegation was led by Subrata Gupta, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Textiles and Co-Chair of the JWG.

Related Keywords: arrived in Coimbatore, FBN, global network of family owned companies, know the best practices adopted by family businesses, next gen entrepreneurs, Switzerland headquartered Family Business Network, The twenty members delegation, two day visit as part of their learning journey

The 20 members delegation from Switzerland headquartered Family Business Network (FBN), a global network of family owned companies who are next-gen entrepreneurs from some of the finest and largest family businesses of the world, arrived in Coimbatore for a two-day visit as part of their learning journey to know the best practices adopted by family businesses in this region.

The FBN has over 9,100 individual members from over 3,000 family businesses across 58 countries.

Related Keywords: apparel industry in India, expanding its market share in Indian apparel industry, presently occupies over sixty percent, providing fashion technology solutions globally, Tukatech Inc, USA leading company

Tukatech Inc, USA, a leading company providing fashion technology solutions globally which presently occupies over 60 percent of the apparel industry in India is now looking at expanding its market share in India’s apparel industry.

Ram Sareen, founder and CEO, Tukatech Inc. said that having served to almost all hi-end international and national brands, their focus is now to bring the technology to the small and medium apparel industry.

Related Keywords: burden of taxes and other crisis, ginning sector, include in special relief package, Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association, revision of tax slabs package, unable to run factories in the next season, urged government

The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association has urged the government revision of tax slabs package to be included in the special relief package for the ginning sector, as they will be unable to run factories in the next season of 2017-18 due to burden of taxes and other crisis.

PCGA chairman Dr Jeso Mal demanded incentives-oriented package for the ginning sector as textile industry was the only buyer of cotton in the market and there was no other buyer in the country.

The PCGA chairman said that the ginning sector should be declared tax-free industry at least for three years.

Related Keywords: add significant value to its refining and petrochemical business, cracker, crystallisation technology from BP, highly energy efficient, largest and most complex process units ever built, paraxylene, plant built with state of the art, Reliance Jamnagar projects

Reliance’s Jamnagar projects with some of the largest and most complex process units ever built anywhere in this industry. These projects add significant value to its refining and petrochemical business.

This plant is built with state-of-the-art crystallisation technology from BP, which is highly energy efficient. With the commissioning of this plant, RIL’s PX capacity will be more than double. Reliance will emerge as the world’s second largest producer of PX with about 11% of global production.

Related Keywords: adopt and upgrade new technology, Faisalabad chamber of commerce and Industry, help of experts, help textile sector, National Textile University, President Muhammad Saeed disclosed, Textile Corner to be established

A Textile Corner to be established to help the textile sector adopt and upgrade new technology with the help of experts of the National Textile University (NTU), disclosed President Muhammad Saeed of Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI).

The FCCI president along with vice president Ahmed Hassan presented a cheque of Rs500,000 to NTU to carry out the research activities and bring a qualitative improvement in the industry academia linkages. The Textile Corner will be set up in in the chambers’ R&D department