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Cotton duty or competitiveness? The bigger challenge facing India’s $190 billion textile industryThe government’s temporary import duty relief may ease pressure on mills and exporters, but industry experts say deeper problems in product...- Cotton prices down 3% on import duty suspension, may slide moreIndia has suspended its 11% import duty on cotton until October. This move has immediately reversed the recent rally in cotton prices, with...
- Brazil’s cotton farmers cash in on rally fueled by obstacles worlds awayBrazilian cotton farmers are poised to profit from a significant price rally, driven by geopolitical tensions impacting synthetic fiber pro...
- Soybeans fall as China summit leaves US farmers seeking detailsSoybean futures dropped, reflecting market skepticism about the vague assurances. While China pledged "double-digit billion" annual purchas...
- Kharif reset: Farmers may ditch paddy and maize for soybean, pulses amid monsoon fearsAs the kharif season approaches, farmers are leaning towards cultivating oilseeds like soybean and pulses such as urad and masur, primarily...
- Govt approves expenditure of Rs 1,061 cr to reimburse losses on cotton sale under MSPThe Centre approved an additional expenditure of Rs 748.08 crore for Cotton Corporation of India and Maharashtra State Co-operative Cotton ...
- Ready to procure 100 lakh quintals of cotton, says FederationThe process of procuring cotton began and as many as 96 procurement centres will be opened in the three phases of purchases, according to H...
- Cotton growers federation expects bumper crop this yearVidarbha has the largest area under cotton cultivation in the state and the cash crop has an influence on its rural farm economy in a big w...
- Congress leader Ahmed Patel expresses concern over plight of cotton growersSenior Congress leader Ahmed Patel today expressed concern over the plight of cotton growers in the country due to lack of buyers.
- PAU advisory for cotton growers about emerging diseasesCotton growers in Punjab are facing problems of physiological disorders on the crop such as ‘parawilt and tirak’,which are not pathogen in ...
- Maharashtra irked with Maran for banning cotton exportA section of the state leadership has sought UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi's attention to lift the ban, while the state government put the b...
- It’s boom time for Maharashtra cotton growersIn Maharashtra’s large cotton constituency, farmers are reaping a cash harvest, thanks to the highest ever minimum support price (MSP) of t...
- Bt cotton growers reap rich harvestCotton farmers in Karnataka cultivating Bt cotton have net returns which are thrice the level of what non-Bt cotton farmers earn.
- State keeps promise to cotton growersThe state government has finally honoured a promise it had made to cotton growers in December 2006.
- Switch to sugarcane to affect Gujarat’s cotton productionA low availability of farm workers in the region is likely to push the cotton production in south Gujarat below 8,000 bales over the next f...
- Contract farming yet to reach state cotton fieldsThe Maharashtra government’s plan to rope in corporates and textile industry for contract farming in cotton, it seems, is going nowhere.
- Cotton farmers want better price, not a debt waiverGetting a debt-waiver from the government is not the first priority for cotton growers in Vidarbha.
- Now, cotton to choke state's financialsThe Maharashtra government, which has incurred accumulated losses of Rs 5,700 crore on account of cotton purchase, has yet another economic...
- Cotton fields at home put Deshmukh govt in a bindPopulist promises made in the ’04 assembly election manifesto have come to haunt the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra.
- No extra incentives for cotton growersMore than 950 suicides in the cotton-rich Vidarbha region since June ’05 have not prompted a populist intervention by the government of Mah...
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