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Analysts assert that unstable political scenarios in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, and wage issues in Bangladesh will shift export demand from these economies to home-textile or garment players in India Source link

Islamabad: With the devastating monsoon rain hitting cotton areas, the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association has approached the federal government to allow the import of cotton from India via Wagah to meet the rising export orders.Exporters say early estimates show that 25 per cent of the standing cotton crop had ...

BATHINDA: Facing successive pest attacks, the surviving cotton crop has opened on a promising note in Punjab this year. The new cotton crop has started reaching mandis, though at a slow pace, and is fetching over Rs 9,500 per quintal against the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 6,280 ...

Domestic cotton prices are set to ease in the next one or two days, as the removal of an import duty on the fibre will facilitate greater purchases from overseas and force local hoarders to release the stocks, textile secretary UP Singh said on Thursday. The government on Wednesday ...

The government on Wednesday removed a 5% basic customs duty on cotton imports to shore up domestic supplies of the fibre, an acute shortage of which has badly hit the country’s textiles-and-clothing value chain. Prior to the move, cotton imports in India were effectively taxed at 11% (including agriculture ...

The next phase is currently underway in the global quest for justice for Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang subjected to forced labor, one of many alleged human rights abuses in the region. Following mounting evidence of forced labor and factories linked to nearby detention centers, Western government ...

Fitch Solutions said on Tuesday it expects cotton production in India to fall by one per cent year-on-year to 28.3 million 480lb bales in 2021-22 (previously two per cent growth) due to lacklustre rainfall throughout July and August, the main planting times.Rainfall in Gujarat -- the country's top producing ...

by Xinhua writers Ding Jiangang, Pan Ying and Zhang Zhongkai URUMQI, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- In the workshop of a textile company in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, workers were busy packaging some 70,000 pieces of knitted underwear for orders from Japan. The enterprise weathered a downturn in ...

Amid the perpetual debate surrounding Bt cotton’s positive and negative impacts, a recent study titled — ‘Long-term impact of Bt cotton: An empirical evidence from North India’ — has said its adoption in Punjab in the past over a decade has resulted in net economic and environmental benefits.Also read: ...

© Provided by Xinhua "The ban will not impact the Chinese economy, but massively affect international brands' consumption. I suggest that the companies should not politicize their economic interest because of propaganda against China. Restricting China's cotton supply chains over false allegations and mere propaganda would be detrimental to ...