Cotton Production In India

Greaves Cotton on Wednesday unveiled six new products at Auto Expo 2023, including three new e-scooters under its Ampere brand and three new three-wheeled cargo and passenger vehicles. The firm also revealed that its average selling price has jumped to nearly Rs. 1 lakh from Rs. 40,000 over the last 30 months.

Trade deficit gap widened mainly due to imports rising by 62.51 per cent to $55.37 billion

Country's exports in August 2021 touched $52.2 billion, showing 34 per cent jump over last year's corresponding period when it was $38.96 billion.

The police have busted a mattress-making factory in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district for using discarded masks, in place of cotton or other material, to stuff its products. They have filed a case against the owner of the unit and launched a probe.

Monsoon rainfall was 43 per cent lower than normal so far in June, but in some states, such as Maharashtra, the rainfall deficit was as high as 68 per cent, data compiled by the state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) showed. Lower production of soybeans could force the country to raise imports of edible oils such as palm oil and soyoil, wh...

For 12 years, the majority of Punjab's farmers have been growing Bt cotton, or genetically modified cotton seeds, which have protected their crops from pests like bollworms. Their yields have doubled too. However, in the last few years, Bt cotton has displayed a remarkable vulnerability to a large number of sap feeding pests like white-flies, which...

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...

By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: Various forms of slavery, including child labour, are present in more than 90 per cent of south India’s spinning mills which produce yarn for Western brands, researchers said, calling for mapping of supply chains and tougher audits. The India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN), a human rights organisation, spoke to...

Welspun India shares pulled back after slumping 5 per cent to Rs 54 at days lows. In noon trade, shares of Welspun India were up 1.3 per cent at Rs 57.50.

Global retail giant Wal-Mart is reviewing cotton certification records of Welspun India in the wake of Target Corporation's decision to terminate contract with the Gujarat-based textiles maker over alleged lapses in products supplied to it.

The Indian government is actively promoting the new homegrown seeds, having already capped prices and royalties that the world's largest seed company is able to charge.

Cotton stocks in India, the world's biggest producer, are likely to fall by a third to 4.3 million bales at the end of 2015-16 season as drought slashes output to the lowest level in six years, a senior government official said.

The spurt in domestic cotton prices, which have now surpassed international rates, will adversely impact yarn demand and profitability of spinning companies in the second quarter of this fiscal, ratings agency Icra said.

Cotton planting in India, the world's biggest producer, is likely to fall to the lowest in seven years in the 2016-17 marketing season as farmers switch to other crops, potentially cutting production and exports of the fibre.

Cotton supplies in Indian spot markets fell 12 per cent from a year ago to 28 million bales between October and March as adverse weather curtailed production, stated the Cotton Association of India on Monday.

Greaves Cotton on Wednesday unveiled six new products at Auto Expo 2023, including three new e-scooters under its Ampere brand and three new three-wheeled cargo and passenger vehicles. The firm also revealed that its average selling price has jumped to nearly Rs. 1 lakh from Rs. 40,000 over the last 30 months.

Trade deficit gap widened mainly due to imports rising by 62.51 per cent to $55.37 billion

Country's exports in August 2021 touched $52.2 billion, showing 34 per cent jump over last year's corresponding period when it was $38.96 billion.

The police have busted a mattress-making factory in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district for using discarded masks, in place of cotton or other material, to stuff its products. They have filed a case against the owner of the unit and launched a probe.

Monsoon rainfall was 43 per cent lower than normal so far in June, but in some states, such as Maharashtra, the rainfall deficit was as high as 68 per cent, data compiled by the state-run India Meteorological Department (IMD) showed. Lower production of soybeans could force the country to raise imports of edible oils such as palm oil and soyoil, wh...

For 12 years, the majority of Punjab's farmers have been growing Bt cotton, or genetically modified cotton seeds, which have protected their crops from pests like bollworms. Their yields have doubled too. However, in the last few years, Bt cotton has displayed a remarkable vulnerability to a large number of sap feeding pests like white-flies, which...

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...

By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: Various forms of slavery, including child labour, are present in more than 90 per cent of south India’s spinning mills which produce yarn for Western brands, researchers said, calling for mapping of supply chains and tougher audits. The India Committee of the Netherlands (ICN), a human rights organisation, spoke to...

Welspun India shares pulled back after slumping 5 per cent to Rs 54 at days lows. In noon trade, shares of Welspun India were up 1.3 per cent at Rs 57.50.

Global retail giant Wal-Mart is reviewing cotton certification records of Welspun India in the wake of Target Corporation's decision to terminate contract with the Gujarat-based textiles maker over alleged lapses in products supplied to it.

The Indian government is actively promoting the new homegrown seeds, having already capped prices and royalties that the world's largest seed company is able to charge.

Cotton stocks in India, the world's biggest producer, are likely to fall by a third to 4.3 million bales at the end of 2015-16 season as drought slashes output to the lowest level in six years, a senior government official said.

The spurt in domestic cotton prices, which have now surpassed international rates, will adversely impact yarn demand and profitability of spinning companies in the second quarter of this fiscal, ratings agency Icra said.

Cotton planting in India, the world's biggest producer, is likely to fall to the lowest in seven years in the 2016-17 marketing season as farmers switch to other crops, potentially cutting production and exports of the fibre.

Cotton supplies in Indian spot markets fell 12 per cent from a year ago to 28 million bales between October and March as adverse weather curtailed production, stated the Cotton Association of India on Monday.