Ethiopia has earned $89.3 million and created 17,000 jobs in the textile sector during fiscal 2016-17 and the country plans to earn $271 million from textile exports and create 30,000 jobs in the current fiscal. The target warrants more efforts by private investors along with government incentives, according to state minister of industry Bogale Feleke. The Ethiopian fiscal year runs from July 8 to July 7. Addressing the annual meeting of stakeholders to evaluate the performance in variou

Indian Government agencies have portrayed ‘a rosy picture’ of the transgenic Bt Cotton that is far removed from the truth and the ‘duality of the claims about the increase in yield of cotton’ needs further examination, the parliamentary standing committee on science and technology headed by Congress party MP Renuka Chowdhury said in a recent report. Released last week, the report criticised the government for its ‘casual’ approach toward the need for a scientific study on the impact of trans

The Government of India has requested Uzbekistan to consider reduction of import tariff imposed by Uzbekistan, especially on fabrics and madeups. India’s commerce and industries minister Nirmala Sitharaman also urged the visiting Uzbek ministers to reduce duty on readymade garments and to simplify the procedure for registration and certification. Uzbek minister of foreign trade Elyor Ganiev and minister of foreign affairs Abdulaziz Kamilov held detailed discussions with Sitharaman on deepenin

Abdul Aleem Baig from Pakistan gave himself the Chinese name Yang Guang (Sunshine), which describes his mood when he runs his leather jacket business in China. On Sunday morning, his booth at the Shanxi Cultural Industries Fair in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan was crowded with buyers trying on clothes or bargaining with him. Abdul, 28, first came to China five years ago, following his older brother who was doing well in the business. So far, he has been to similar fairs in more than

Merely 18.1 hectares of land undercottoncultivation out of the total area of 3.82 lakh hectares has been affected by whitefly pest in Punjab, as per areportformulated by the agriculture department of the state. It was presented to Captain Amarinder Singh, the chief minister of Punjab, recently in a meeting organised to reflect on the pest situation. In Bathinda, only 3.6 hectares of area was affected out of the total area of 1,40,000 hectares, while only 10.2 hectares was infested by pest in

A container ship docks at the Port of Ningbo, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] China's foreign trade is likely to swing back to full-year growth in 2017 on back of strong first-half momentum and strengthened cooperation with trade partners. Analysts believe a recovery in global demand and the upcoming BRICS summit will inject a boost to trade growth for the rest of the year. China's foreign trade in the first seven months totaled 15.46 trillion yuan, up 18.5 percent year

The Jute Corporation of India (JCI) is planning a tie-up with Patanjali Ayurved for branding and promotion of jute diversified products, such as mini shopping bags and some fashion items, signalling a makeover of the state-controlled agency. Historically, the JCI has been tasked with undertaking minimum support price (MSP) operations of raw jute. JCI’s chairman-cum-managing director, K V R Murthy, is understood to have visited the Patanjali headquarters at Haridwar to discuss the tie-up. T

The cotton zone districts of Punjab have come under pest attack, and the agriculture department has advised growers to carry out pest scouting twice a week. Sowing season for the cash crop during kharif has already been completed, and harvesting will begin in September to be completed in October. Punjab produces 80pc of the total crop while Sindh has the share of 20pc. Cotton Commissioner Dr Khalid Abdullah told Dawn that the government has revised the target of production, and now it is

Exports of textiles and clothing grew three per cent year-on-year to $1.006 billion in July from $979.414 million in the same month last year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Tuesday. An official said one of the reasons for revival in textile exports was the release of pending refunds and uninterrupted supply of electricity and gas to the sector. The cash subsidy under the prime minister’s package helped in promoting exports. Exports of ready-made garments edged up 20.47pc

Telangana has invited South Korean investors to the Kakatiya textiles park in Warangal. At a recent meeting in Hyderabad with representatives of the Korea Federation of Textile Industries (KOFOTI), the state’s industries minister KT Rama Rao explained the benefits of setting up units in the upcoming park and urged KOFOTI to be the anchor investor. Hinting at the possibility of allocating a certain portion of land for Korean companies, Rao said both national and international textile companie