Punjab Agriculture Department has decided to impart cotton-picking training to women, who work in cotton fields. A spokesman for the department said on Monday that women did not adopt proper methods of cotton-picking due to lack of training, which affects the quality of the produce. "Ultimately farmers suffer as the price of the commodity decreases at international level," he added. The first phase of the training would be completed in July while the second phase would continue in August and Sep

Ethiopia is to inaugurate two Chinese built industrial parks in September, as the East African nation strives to become the continent's manufacturing hub. The statement was made on Monday by Tadesse Haile, state minister of economic affairs at the office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. The two industrial parks are the Dire Dawa Industrial park 446 kilometers east of Ethiopia's capital city Addis Ababa and the Adama Industrial Park 99 km east of Addis Ababa. Dire

Versaperm has launched a system for testing of fabrics in performance textiles that slashes the testing time to as little as 30 minutes for many fabrics. Moreover, its latest range of equipment can test several fabrics at exactly the same time and to an accuracy in the parts per million (PPM) to parts per billion ranges. ISO testing takes several weeks. With the market for active wear riding on the crest of a 200 billion dollar wave, the demand for new high performance textiles puts textile

Leading economies and advocates of free trade, China and Germany are seeking to forge closer ties in trade and investment to help global economic recovery and encourage globalization. President Xi Jinping arrived in Berlin Tuesday for his second state visit to the country, and is scheduled to meet German leaders and sign a series of cooperation agreements. Bilateral cooperation has delivered real benefits to the two peoples and played a leading and exemplary role in boosting Europe's coope

Under the Angola’s production recovery programme its first cotton harvest in the provinces of Malanje and Kwanza Sul is scheduled for July with a symbolic result of 200 tonnes. Angola’s cotton production, following independence, in 1975 had virtually ceased due to the civil war, which ended in 2002. The Ministry of Agriculture staffer and coordinator of the cotton production recovery programme, Carlos Canza, said that an area of 242 hectares was planted, and each hectare will produce one ton

Ethiopian textile sector is a preferable gateway to step into industrialization because of the ease in entry and it is making all efforts to attract top international firms. The textile sector would benefit large number of people and paves the way for nation to join middle income status in the very near future. The country has launched a strategy to make the most of its potential in the textile sector. On top of the industry's innate behavior of marketability that would suffice to ensure spee

As the technical textiles market continues to grow, China is expected to remain its leader and meet most of the demand from countries in the US and Europe. That’s according to the latest research from business networking platform, BizVibe. The global technical textiles industry was estimated to be worth US$142bn in 2015 and is expected to reach US$165bn by 2019. The vast majority of technical textiles come from Asia-Pacific, which accounts for a share of almost half of the global technical te

Viet Nam’s garment and textile revenue increased for the first half of this year but experts said the growth has not yet become sustainable. The national garment and textiles export value in the first half of the year grew 11.3 per cent year-on-year to US$14.58 billion, higher than the growth rate of 6.1 per cent year-on-year in the same period of 2016. Le Tien Truong, deputy general director of the Viet Nam Garment and Textile Group (Vinatex), said the results by the garment sector were a

Israel-based start-up Twine Solutions has developed an innovative digital thread dyeing system that dyes a single, white, off-the-shelf thread in any colour for any desired length. The company's Digital Selective Treatment (DST), a waterless eco-friendly technology, can go into shade variations on demand. It looks into colour gradients within seconds using proprietary inks. Speaking about the technology, Yariv Bustan, vice president, product & marketing, Twine Solutions told Fibre2Fashion

At a seminar organised by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) in Coimbatore on Thursday, a delegation from five African nations discussed about opportunities in textiles, food and agro-processing, agriculture, leather and leather garments, renewable energy, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and education where Indian industrialists and entrepreneurs can find business potential in African countries. Mali, Seychelles, Uganda, Ehtiopia and Botswana were the African nations that had their repr