The slow growth in textile and clothing sector was recorded owing to decline in export of raw cotton, cotton cloth and bed wear during the year under review. However, the government had announced a relief package of subsidies for the sector to make their prices competitive in international market. The slow growth in textile and clothing sector was recorded owing to decline in export of raw cotton, cotton cloth and bed wear during the year under review. It has been observed that Pakistan...

And the cotton has now been dubbed "the killer crop" as the growers could not get the reasonable returns because of the high cost of farming. Tiwari urged the government to promote low-cost farming so farmers can earn enough returns for surviving. Maitra added, "Two relief packages have been announced for the region by the state and union government since December 2005, but the suicides continue. Extreme indebtedness and crop failure were said to be the cause of these suicides. OneWorld...

A few customers have recently asked me whether or not the cotton market is selling off as a result of the recent sell-off in the grain markets. Many of the fundamentals that we watch in the grain markets also apply to the cotton market including exports, acreage planted, and weather patterns. The price pressure in cotton, as planting took place, discouraged many farmers from planting cotton this year as they vied for more profitable crops (such as corn) The weather markets have been...

With harvest just weeks away, nature's signs -- and the official crop report from the Agricultural Statistics Service -- point to a bountiful harvest come fall. Even though Kansas farmers plant millions more acres of wheat than corn, White said he expected the state's corn production to surpass the wheat this year. The same heavy rainfall this spring that foiled the Kansas wheat harvest has given fall-harvested crops a welcomed respite from years of drought. If those estimates hold up --...

The market 'wants' to go higher, but market fundamentals continue to suggest the world is awash with cotton looking for a textile mill. The two month rally to nearly 69 cents, basis December has recovered a bit from its seven cent loss of the past two weeks and now climbed back above 64 cents. Dead in the water, so describes the cotton market. Nevertheless, the market appears lifeless. Trading was light all week, but prices did creep higher on the midweek closes. Consistent with the end of...

Most of the farmers would like to harvest their crops to honor their contracts and some of them might have to buy grain from someone else to fulfill their contracts. Batchelor said that some of the farmers in the county would not be harvesting their crops because of the damage that has been done by the rain. Lot of the cotton crops in the county if they re not mature bolls will shed lots of blooms and then try to remake fruit and that is where we are in a lot of fields in the county, said...