NEWS BRIEFS
Cotton Association Of India
Indian Cotton Crop Estimate For The Season 2018-19 And 2019-20
Estimated as on 31st March 2020
ciations, medical textiles manufacturers and suppliers; in
inviting a higher participation of the such manufacturers
having adequate capacity to partner with the government
and offer their proto-types for testing. M/s HLL Lifecare
Limited is the designated single-window procurement
agency for the hospitals and healthcare organisations underthe Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of
India. Five indigenous manufacturers came forward and
offered fabric proto-types for testing at the accredited labo-
ratory of South India Textiles research association (SITRA)
at Coimbatore. All these attempts were directed at indig-
enous development of manufacturing sources as interna-
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