Textile stocks surged up to 9% during the special Budget session on Saturday after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled a five-year...

US agri trade body Cotton Council International (CCI) has called for the removal of the 11% import duty on shorter staple cotton below 32mm...

The long-staple local or desi seeds and short-duration American cotton varieties were developed by the Central Institute for Cotton Researc...

India's cotton exports are expected to decline 23% to 7.7 million bales in the 2014-15 marketing year starting August due to tight domestic...

A large percentage of cotton farmers in Rajasthan have still not adopted the Bt variety because they are happy with the desi variants.

Instead of claiming exaggerated costs, Maharashtra farmers need to focus on the severe water crisis in the state.

The area under cotton may rise by 12% this year at 12.5 mn hect due to record cotton prices. Bt cotton area is expected to reach 90% of the...

CCI, which was keen to buy cotton directly from farmers at a minimum support price varying from 2,000 to 4,200 per quintal, finds no busine...

Country’s cotton economy is keenly awaiting a fresh spell of rains.

India is likely to register a 30-60% increase in cotton imports in the current cotton year (Oct'08-Sep'09) as international prices quote at...

The increase in the minimum support price (MSP) announced by the Government for certain cotton varieties may hurt some Indian textile firms...

Cotton prices are unlikely to ease even after the government scrapped import duty and withdrew export incentives.

The scrapping of import duty on cotton and withdrawal of export incentive is unlikely to cause a fall in prices, believes CRISIL.

The bumper cotton production this season has not brought any cheers to the domestic spinning industry, which remained under recession right...

The domestic textile industry has not been benefited by an estimated record cotton crop of 23 million bales this year as cotton prices cont...

Cotton, it is said, is a predictably unpredictable commodity. Prices, which at the commencement of the current season (October 15- November...

Further rains in Gujarat would now threaten the possibility of a bumper cotton crop in the state.