Italy may return to silk production.

WWD;  October 17, 1988 ;     308 words ...ITALY MAY RETURN TO SILK PRODUCTION MILAN -- Italy may once again begin...silk worms and producing its own raw silk to protect its textile industry...to five years to build and begin silk production at the plant, which will attempt...

Silk goods: selling to the Japanese market.

International Trade Forum;  July 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......18,000 tons (in raw silk equivalent), or...approximately 25% of world raw silk production, with imports accounting...record level of raw silk imports that year...consumption of silk and silk products...products. Imports of raw silk In 1991 ...

Silk in world markets.(includes related articles)

International Trade Forum;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......market share. Raw silk prices have plummeted...labour-intensive silk production, as urban industries...sericulture and silk production - under certain...The world market raw silk price was US...and suppliers of raw silk and silk yarn...There used to be ...

Yield Gaps in Mulberry Sericulture in Karnataka: An Econometric Analysis

Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......4.93 per cent of mulberry raw silk production during 1980-81 to 2004-05...rates of mulberry acreage, raw silk production and productivity were 1.99...Kashmir, the growth rates of raw silk production were 4.16 and 3.55 per cent...

India hikes investment in silks, Philippines struggles along. (silk...

Daily News Record;  August 21, 1984 ;     336 words ......plans to expand its raw silk industry with new...along with only one raw silk plant. India is attaching...ambitious plan to double silk production by 1990. The project...India's production of raw silk was about 6,423 metric...Most of India's silk ...

Indian government moves to boost production of silk.

Economic Times (New Delhi, India);  December 9, 2004 ;     197 words ......the domestic production of mulberry raw silk during the last two years. Stating...there was no decline in non-mulberry raw silk production during the same period. The minister...taken by the Centre to give boost to silk production and silk products were efforts to step...

Rough times for the silk market

The China Business Review;  March 1, 1997 ;     117 words ......downstream silk products from China may have backfired, as raw silk from China is increasingly hard to come by. The European...according to Economist Intelligence Unit reports. But raw silk production in China, which skyrocketed to 72,000 tons in 1994, has...industries may now find they ...

WORLD BANK: Agriculture loan to help boost production, incomes of poor...

M2 Presswire;  January 22, 1999 ;     681 words ......production, irrigation, and silk production funded through a new...these products. The silk production portion of this project...the quality of their raw silk and cocoons so that...the improvements in silk production methods. Eighty percent...reduction of soil erosion; ...

China: Experts: Export Prices of Silks Must Stop Falling

Asian Textile Business;  May 1, 2004 ;     323 words ......put an end to the depression in silk goods business, in which exports...beginning of 2002, China's exports of silk commodities, including mulberry silk and its products, as well as...increase in export volume of silk goods. The key reason why the...statistics, China's mulberry silk ...

Marked fall in raw silk export prices

Asian Textile Business;  October 1, 2003 ;     236 words ...This year, China's export prices of raw silk have decreased drastically, along with...According to customs statistics for 2002, raw silk exports from Guangdong Province (south...the average per ton price of exported raw silk fell by 18.1% to only US$15,098. Prices...

Silk in oversupply

Asian Textile Business;  July 1, 2003 ;     142 words ...The raw silk industry is suffering from an imbalance of supply and demand. Raw silk production stood at 96,700 tons in 2002, while demand amounted to 85,700 tons. Exports rose by 30% in quantity from the previous year, while...of US$33.19/kg were imposed on 2A class silk. Most silk ...

China uses more control to stabilize silk industry.

Daily News Record;  May 25, 1989 ;     471 words ......producer, is imposing stronger central control over silk production in an effort to stabilize the industry. Hong Kong-based silk apparel traders said prices for raw silk have recently climbed 5 to 10 percent as demand continues...did not appear to be having any discernible effect on silk ...

Silk Board aims to increase output to 1,200t by Mar '06.

Economic Times (New Delhi, India);  July 6, 2005 ;     557 words ......high-quality bivoltine raw silk production in the country, aims...tonne. The growth in silk production is expected to be...percent of bivoltine raw silk output in the country...of country's total raw silk production of 15,000 tonnes...

India: Ambitious silk plans

JTN Monthly Asian Textile Business;  September 1, 2001 ;     89 words ...India's raw silk production has been stagnant at around 15,000 ton/year for over a decade now. Potential is generally believed to be almost unlimited since...

China denies India reports of cuts in raw silk exports.

Daily News Record;  January 12, 1988 ;     284 words ...China Denies India Reports Of Cuts in Raw Silk Exports China has denied reports it has...claiming the Chinese have stopped sales of raw silk to India were groundless.' He noted in...China exported 1,093 tons of low-grade raw silk to India, a slight increase over 1986...