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International cotton prices are expected to rise because Pakistan is importing more than five million bales of cotton this season, mostly from India, to compensate for a 34% fall in domestic production year-on-year caused by bad weather and pests. “Due to heavy rains, not only the cotton in the fields was spoiled but the pesticides and fertilizers were also diluted, leading to pink bollworm attack,” Khawaja Tahir, chairman Karachi Cotton Association (KCA), told WTiN.…

Devendra Chawla, group president of food and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) at India’s Future Group, has a clear view of how the Indian branded food sector is and has been developing: while Indian consumers love to try new products, they prefer them to be spiced with some familiar flavours from the past.…

Bangladesh’s top textiles makers are racing against time to alter the way they print fabric. The reason is simple: go digital or risk losing a competitive edge.

Vertically integrated textile manufacturing major Noman Group told Digital Textile that it is carefully considering digital textile investments.…

Five years since the start of the Arab uprisings in 2011, instability is still impacting cosmetics sales in the Levant and north Africa. Last year saw a slight improvement on overall sales in 2014, the year the Islamic State spread through northern Iraq and Syria, but figures are down on 2013, and the growth projected in 2010, according to figures from market researcher Euromonitor International and estimates from cosmetics companies.…

An unofficial ban on the import of raw textile materials from Turkey has left Russian textile enterprises struggling to find alternative supplies among local manufacturers and maintain their production cycles. The situation has escalated so far that Russia’s ministry of industry and trade has recently asked industry representatives to compile a ‘white list’ of Turkish exporters who would be able to continue shipments to Russia, while the government in Moscow weighs the possibility of an official embargo on Turkish textiles.…

A CONSULTANT on the Asia textile and clothing industry has argued that a recent weak performance in Pakistan’s textile export segment should not be a concern for the country’s government, as long as ready-made-garment sales hold up. Indeed, industry expert and partner at Sydney-based Apparel & Textiles Industry (ATI) Group, Paula Rogers, told WTiN that Pakistan has made a strategic oversight by its past focus on textile processing.…

THE PAKISTAN government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is actively looking for the right minister to steer the textile sector out of its current distress, after former federal minister for the textile industry Abbas Khan Afridi stepped down in March.…

The Pakistan government has reversed a decision to increase a health certification fee charged for assessing meat and meat products, three weeks after it was issued, after meat exporters opposed the move. The federal ministry of national food security and research reversed on April the average 150% increase made on March 31.…

The meat industry in Pakistan is hoping an upcoming government budget will promote investment enabling the sector to hit a government target of doubling the country’s export earnings from the global halal food market by 2018. This would net Pakistan meat exporters USD600 million in annual export proceeds, compared to USD300 million now, according to Pakistan ministry of national food security and research figures.…

American pharmaceutical industry officials and trade groups remain cautiously optimistic that intellectual property (IP) negotiations with India can be resolved to the benefit of both nations’ medicine sectors. For now, however, India remains on a so-called ‘priority watch list’ of nations the US is urging to address key IP protection concerns.…