The trouble began far away from the leaky concrete house and stand of banana trees that Sakunthala Radhakrishnan calls home. In 19 years as a textile worker in southern India, Radhakrishnan saved enough to buy gold jewelry. She sent money to her parents and fattened up her skinny daughter with fancy ...

The domestic starch makers are witnessing a rise in demand for their finished products. This upsurge can be attributed to the textile sector which players say will sustain. According to them, growth in demand will help firm up starch prices. The starch prices have increased to Rs 800 for a bag ...

The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has revised India’s cotton export estimates down at 4 million bales for the cotton year 2008-09. Earlier, the cotton body had pegged cotton exports from the country at 5 million bales. According to ...

The Handloom Mark Scheme introduced by the Central Government has received poor response from weavers in Salem district. The district has over 28,000 private weavers. But only about 250 weavers have registered under the scheme till January 2009. Forty three ...

Cotton prices in Punjab and Haryana have spiralled by up to 13 per cent in the last one month on account of rising demand from the local spinners. Prices of cotton yarn have also inched up by 13-14 per cent in the same period and this has helped spinners protect ...

The five per cent duty incentive and rupee depreciation against the dollar seem to have revived cotton exports in the last three months. Of the total cotton exports of 9.5 lakh bales till March 31, about 5.97 lakh bales have been shipped in the first quarter of the calendar year 2009, ...

Mumbai, April 3 Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), the nodal government agency for procurement of cotton under MSP (minimum support price), has sold 61 lakh bales (lb) till March out of the total procurement of 88 lb. Mr S.C. Grover, Chairman and Managing Director, CCI, said: “We have sold 60.85 lb ...

In yet another stimulus package aimed at addressing the woes and concerns of exporters, the Union Government on Thursday unveiled sops to exports of leather, textiles, gems and jewellery and food product. [caption id="attachment_347" align="alignright" width="345" caption="BOOSTING EXPORTS: Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath (right) with Ashwani Kumar, Minister ...