Cotton: Volgograd or Astrakhan?
The company "Kamyshinsky textile" together with Astrakhan and Volgograd scientists and with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade will try to find out which cotton will turn out to be the best quality is Volgograd or Astrakhan. According to RIA "Fashion"with reference to the Information portal of the South of Russia "Infocam", the company intends to use cotton in production as an experiment both areas, which will allow him to abandon imported raw materials.
«Kamyshinsky textiles» The largest cotton fiber processing company in Russia processes 20 thousand tons of raw materials annually. In the Volgograd region, areas have been allocated for the cultivation of cotton, a project is underway to grow raw materials adapted to Russian conditions.The Astrakhan region also plans to supply cotton to Kamyshinsky textiles. In the summer of 2017, the company's CEO Alexander Borisenko visited the Kamyzyaksky district, the All-Russian Research Institute of Irrigated Vegetable Growing and melon Growing, to get acquainted with the new cotton variety AC-3, which took Astrakhan scientists more than eight years to select.
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