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Cotton seed companies in Punjab have reported low demand for BT cotton seeds, the variety that accounts for most of the cotton grown in the country.
This is due to the farmers shifting to other crops, especially paddy and maize, which yield higher returns.
Accordingly, cotton acreage in the state this kharif season is expected to drop by 15-20 per cent despite an 8 per cent discount in price of seeds this year. If the sowing doesn’t pick up pace, it is likely to affect the revival of cotton in Punjab, where acreage under the cash crop had jumped by about half in 2017-18.
Cotton, especially BT cotton, was grown over 12.2million hectares in India in 2017-18.
In recent years, pest infestation, high input costs and drop in earnings in cotton have hit farmers hard.
To end poverty wages that haunt workers in Ethiopia’s textile and garment sector, IndustriALL Global Union affiliate the Industrial Federation of Textile, Leather and Garment Workers Trade Unions (IFTLGWU) is leading a campaign for better wages, workers’ rights to organise, and collective bargaining.
The campaign targets the industrial parks set up by the government including Bole Lemi in Addis Ababa where South Korean garment manufacturer, Shints, employs 4,300 workers, of whom 3,800 are union members. Other parks targeted by the campaign includeHawassa and Mekele.
According to these unions, minimum wages are the starting point in reversing low wages and they should be included in the new labour laws under consideration.
Eventually the unions want to shift the campaign to living wages. Unions are campaigning for minimum wages above ETB 3373 (US$121). These wages can be pegged using the official minimum wage, ETB1800 (US$64)), or the consumer price index, ETB2400 (US$86). Current wages average below US$50.
According to the views expressed in a workshop held in Hanoi in May 9, 2018, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) agreement will to boost Vietnam’s textiles and garment exports to Australia to double-digits.
The workshop, jointlyheld by the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) and the IEC Group of Australia, focused on measures to help Vietnamese textiles and garment enterprises increase exports to Australia.
The total textiles and garment import turnover of the CPTPP member countries, according to reports, exceeded 53 billion USD in 2017, of which Australia was the third biggest import market with total turnover reaching over 6.2 billion USD, accounting for 11.67 percent.
Vietnam earned over 4.8 billion USD from exporting textiles and garments to the other CPTPP member nations in 2017, making up 9.07 percent of the market share.
Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM) will highlight its solutions at Techtextil North America, which will be held in Atlanta, GA, this month.
The company will showcase tapes and webbings that engineers can use to meet their advanced material needs, including: conductivity properties needed for smart textiles, colour requirements, flame resistance, durability, flexibility, chemical resistance, controlled elongation, specific strength, and lightness properties.
With more than 95 years of textile manufacturing experience, BRM designs, develops and manufactures woven webbing, tapes, specialty fabrics, woven preforms, and two dimensional and three dimensional structural fabrics. Working in aerospace, defence, medical, safety, automotive, commercial, and industrial applications, the company offers technical know-how, extensive weaving capabilities, and quality assurance systems.
Russia, a non-traditional export destination for Bangladeshi garments, has a market of $52 billion in garments sector,which Bangladesh has recently begun to target.
As part of this, the country will hold a fair in Moscow from May 21-23, 2018.
The fair will target Bangladeshi garments and jute sector entrepreneurs, organisation of owners and entrepreneurs of ready-made garment sector BGMEA, jute entrepreneur, BJMC and Jute Diversification Promotion Center (JPDC).
The fair will be held at the Radisson Slavianskaya Hotel and business center in Moscow.
The Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau and the Bangladesh Embassy of Moscow will organise the fair
The London-based apparel-sourcing trade show, Fashion SVPwill launch Source Denim, a boutique-size segment dedicated to denim, at the June 26-27, 2018 event to be held at the London Olympia.
The event will offer attendees all of their sourcing requirements under one roof.
The event will be a one-stop shop for all things from small volumes or huge, raw denim, selvedge, non-selvedge, washed in any number of ways, treated and finished in any number of ways, chain-stitched, dyed, organic, ethical, sustainable, conservative, contemporary or fashion forward.
Exhibitors will include Soorty, Spy Denim, Siddiqsons from Pakistan, Suryalakshmi and Billoomi from India, Portugal-based Marjomotex and more.
This 4th edition of the Women in Motion Award Dinner was celebrated May 13th on the Place de la Castre, in Cannes.
The event was attended by around 200 guests including actresses Isabelle Huppert, Diane Kruger, LéaSeydoux, GolshiftehFarahani, LaetitiaCasta, Claudia Cardinale, Chiara Mastroianni, Chris Lee, AnaïsDemoustier, Cécile Cassel, ChloëSevigny,
VirginieLedoyen, ClémencePoésy along with actors Vincent Perez, Pierre Deladonchamps, Matt Dillon, Z. Tao and Laurent Lafitte.
On this occasion, François-Henri Pinault, Chairman and CEO of Kering, Pierre Lescure, President of the Festival de Cannes, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Festival of Cannes, awarded the Women in Motion Prize to the American filmmaker Patty Jenkins.
Actress and producer Salma Hayek Pinault chose to honor the Catalan Director Carla Simón with the Young Talents Award and financial support for her future film projects.
To be held on May 15, 2018 in Denmark, The Copenhagen Fashion Summit, will feature many top brands including Nike, H&M, C&A, G-Star Raw and Levi Strauss which have fully aligned with the Transparency Pledge, a threshold minimum standard of supply chain transparency in the apparel sector developed by nine non-governmental organisations and global unions.
The summit program will cover diverse topics including transparency in the garment industry which allows worker representatives to better protect factory workers from abuse that can endanger their jobs, health, and even their lives. And it assures the people who buy the products that the people who made the products can easily find out which brands they produce for—a critical piece of information needed to escalate complaints about labor abuses.
Steve Madden, the New York-based footwear brand with a global presence, has recently created an innovative window display at all of their major exclusive stores in India. The brand installed the tail part of the yellow taxis to showcase the collection of shoes and lifestyle accessories.
Executed by Brand Pulse, the Mumbai-based retail solution provider, the brand used material like thermocol to create such interesting props for the store. It has rolled out such innovative installation window in their 20 exclusive stores across India and 8 traffic signals.
The brand is getting lot of walk-ins due to this in-store display. Its trials too have gone up and it looks at exploring different VM elements for different seasons to promote their new collections.
Vietnam’s textile and garment exports are growing rapidly due to a strong growth in the country’s fibre and yarn production. Vietnam earned 31 billion USD from exporting textiles and garment products, fibre, cotton and materials in 2017, of which exports of fibre contributed 3.59 billion USD, up 22.7 percent year-on-year.
In addition to traditional textiles products, high value-added items such as fabrics, fibre and yarn and textiles and garments accessories have grown well in the first months of 2018. Notably, the country’s fibre and yarn export alone reached 906 million USD in the first quarter of 2018. Prior to 2000, the spinning sector’s production scale reached only 1 million spindles but its capacity was raised to 3.7 million spindles in 2007 and 7 million spindles at present.
