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India's Sliding Cotton Exports To Match Imports For First Time In Decades: Report
India's cotton exports are expected to slide sharply for 2022-23 and match imports into the top producer for the first time in about two decades on low domestic stocks among other factors, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said.
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"Don't Have Many Sheep To Produce Cotton": Singapore Minister's Gaffe
A Singaporean minister has sheepishly admitted to saying that cotton came from animals rather than plants in a slip-up during an interview that triggered bleats of mockery online.
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The Fabulous Story Of North Korea's Fabric Made Of Stone
For much of the world, it's a niche product. In North Korea, where winter temperatures are frigid and which cannot produce enough cotton or wool for clothing, the synthetic fibre developed after nylon was glorified as a revolutionary invention. Known outside North Korea as vinylon, it was christened "vinalon" by founder Kim Il Sung. He ordered it b...
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Gujarat Day 2017: Foundation Day History And Celebration
Gujarat also referred as the 'Jewel of Western India' was known to the ancient Greeks. It was one of the main centres of the Indus Valley Civilization. This year on May 1st Gujarat completes 50 years. Gujarati is the state language. It is an Indo-Aryan language evolved from Sanskrit and local Prakrits. About 59 million people speak Gujarati, making...
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Dry Spell Wilts Crops, Stokes Food Inflation Concerns
Farmers in the country run the risk of planting too much, too fast in the current monsoon season as an unexpected dry spell starts to wilt crops across the country, raising fears of lower yields and surging food prices in a mostly impoverished nation.
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Faced With Mounting Debt, Gujarat Cotton Farmer's Son Kills Himself
21-year-old Arvind Nagani of Dharai village in Gujarat's Saurashtra had taken some days off from his studies to help his father sell off their cotton produce at a marketing yard 15 km away from his village.
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India Topples China As World Leader in This Area
India will be the world's No. 1 cotton grower this year, ousting China from the top spot for the first time in over 30 years, the US government said on Thursday.
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Film on farmers' suicide, Bitter Seeds being shown in Vidarbha
Bitter Seeds, a documentary film produced by US-based filmmaker Micha Peled on the agrarian crisis of cotton growers and their plight, is being shown in Vidarbha region.
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Monsoon rains pick up, cover almost half of India
India's annual monsoon rains have covered almost half of the country, showing signs of a pick-up after falling short in the first 15 days of the season, weather officials said on Monday. The rebound eases concerns about the planting of summer-sown crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton and soybean in a country that is a leading producer and consume...
_625x300_01_September_18.jpg?downsize=260:195 "\"Don't Have Many Sheep To Produce Cotton\": Singapore Minister's Gaffe")
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India's Sliding Cotton Exports To Match Imports For First Time In Decades: Report
India's cotton exports are expected to slide sharply for 2022-23 and match imports into the top producer for the first time in about two decades on low domestic stocks among other factors, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said.
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"Don't Have Many Sheep To Produce Cotton": Singapore Minister's Gaffe
A Singaporean minister has sheepishly admitted to saying that cotton came from animals rather than plants in a slip-up during an interview that triggered bleats of mockery online.
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The Fabulous Story Of North Korea's Fabric Made Of Stone
For much of the world, it's a niche product. In North Korea, where winter temperatures are frigid and which cannot produce enough cotton or wool for clothing, the synthetic fibre developed after nylon was glorified as a revolutionary invention. Known outside North Korea as vinylon, it was christened "vinalon" by founder Kim Il Sung. He ordered it b...
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Gujarat Day 2017: Foundation Day History And Celebration
Gujarat also referred as the 'Jewel of Western India' was known to the ancient Greeks. It was one of the main centres of the Indus Valley Civilization. This year on May 1st Gujarat completes 50 years. Gujarati is the state language. It is an Indo-Aryan language evolved from Sanskrit and local Prakrits. About 59 million people speak Gujarati, making...
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Dry Spell Wilts Crops, Stokes Food Inflation Concerns
Farmers in the country run the risk of planting too much, too fast in the current monsoon season as an unexpected dry spell starts to wilt crops across the country, raising fears of lower yields and surging food prices in a mostly impoverished nation.
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Faced With Mounting Debt, Gujarat Cotton Farmer's Son Kills Himself
21-year-old Arvind Nagani of Dharai village in Gujarat's Saurashtra had taken some days off from his studies to help his father sell off their cotton produce at a marketing yard 15 km away from his village.
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India Topples China As World Leader in This Area
India will be the world's No. 1 cotton grower this year, ousting China from the top spot for the first time in over 30 years, the US government said on Thursday.
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Film on farmers' suicide, Bitter Seeds being shown in Vidarbha
Bitter Seeds, a documentary film produced by US-based filmmaker Micha Peled on the agrarian crisis of cotton growers and their plight, is being shown in Vidarbha region.
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Monsoon rains pick up, cover almost half of India
India's annual monsoon rains have covered almost half of the country, showing signs of a pick-up after falling short in the first 15 days of the season, weather officials said on Monday. The rebound eases concerns about the planting of summer-sown crops such as rice, corn, cane, cotton and soybean in a country that is a leading producer and consume...
