Category : Cotton

Although synthetic fibers are on the rise, quality cotton is still ahead, providing endurance that it offers. Cotton has long been one of the world’s most valuable commodity. It’s one of the 10 largest agricultural products worldwide, and the farming of cotton is a $23 billion global business. This year...

A consortium of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has improved the genome of upland cotton and made it publicly available. The sequence of the species, making up greater than 90 per cent of the world’s spinnable cotton fibre, builds upon genome...

The cotton prices remained firm on Karachi cotton exchange on Tuesday, while the market witnessed less activity. Reduced demand for cotton from the textile sector that is facing liquidity crunch and stiff competition in the world market from regional countries owing to increasing production cost contributed majorly towards market slowdown....