据巴基斯坦统计局公布，2月巴基斯坦基础纺织品出口保持增长，棉纱、棉布、非棉纱线和原棉的出口环比增长13%。2021财年前八个月，巴基斯坦纺织品出口额为100亿美元，同比增长6.6%，按卢比计算增长11%，主要是印度和孟加拉国的订单转移到巴基斯坦。同时，中美贸易战也促进了巴基斯坦纺织品出口。
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目前，巴基斯坦棉花播种即将开始。近两年种植面积减少、单产大幅下降、棉种质量差、天气多变以及病虫害等因素导致棉花总产下降。由于国内棉花大幅减产，本月巴基斯坦棉花价格涨至11个月新高，标准级现货涨到12300卢比/毛德，创下历史最高纪录。
同时，着CCI大量销售库存，印度国内棉花价格预计涨至更高水平，据印度棉花协会（CAI）预测，今年印度棉花出口或增长50%，最终在2020-2021财年，印度棉花出口将到750万包，主要来源于中国对印度棉的需求增加。CAI主席沙达说：“在过去十天里，单是中国就订购了100多万包(每包170公斤)，而且全球棉花价格不断上涨”
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据Just-Style和Bestseller官方网站消息，旗下拥有VERO MODA，ONLY，VILA，Object，JACK & JONES等众多品牌的丹麦著名时装零售商Bestseller日前宣布已与其供应商之一，即巴基斯坦的牛仔布厂Artistic Milliners（“艺术磨坊）合作，对其有机棉进行了“从农场到时尚”的可追溯性项目。
在过去将近一年的时间里，Artist Milliners一直与巴基斯坦世界自然基金会和Baluchistan地方政府合作，致力于“可持续的有机棉花种植''。它于2020年宣布的有机棉项目已准备好进行下一个重大转型：在设计阶段引入了解决社会不平等和认证完整性的解决方案，从农场到时尚的透明度和可追溯性。该项目被称为“ Milliner Cotton Organic”，旨在满足全球质量和真实性标准。现已与Bestseller及其Jack＆Jones品牌合作进入市场。
Artist Milliners 拥有70多年历史，是一家多元化，垂直整合的牛仔布和服装制造商，年生产能力分别为1.08亿米面料和3000万件服装。该公司强调可持续性：气候行动，节水，循环经济，性别平等和工人福利。该公司对可持续棉花的投资“Milliner Cotton”是一个整体项目，旨在解决整个棉花供应链中的可扩展性，可追溯性和增强女性能力。它的可再生能源企业Artistic Energy为巴基斯坦的电网提供100兆瓦的清洁能源，为欠发达社区的50,000多个家庭提供电。
另据Bestseller网站显示，其在2019年加入了Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA)，采用直接农作法来确保可追踪的有机棉源，已与印度的两个农场集团（总计约2,000名有机棉种植者）签署了当前季节的协议，并将在2020/21年参与OCA的农场参与与发展（FED）项目。
同时，在此前缅甸政变后，Bestseller宣布暂停缅甸的所有新订单，在36家工厂中，只有7家工厂仍在运营，并且全部处于减产状态。
近期，Bestseller还在去年12月启动创新性区块链技术的国际可追溯性项目试点区块链以应用到粘胶纤维可追溯性项目，其范围集中在从生产到零售追踪粘胶纤维。
Bestseller表示，区块链已成为供应链透明度和可追溯性的有前途的工具。在先前的试点中已经证明了TextileGenesis TM平台的技术可行性及其整合产销监管链认证的能力之后，该项目将着重展示该解决方案在整个粘胶供应链中全球应用的可行性——BESTSELLER根据行业最佳实践（例如森林）负责地采购100％的人造纤维素（MMC）追踪，以逐年增加使用更多可持续材料的目标为最终目标。为了达到目标，提高供应链的可追溯性至关重要。
Danish fashion retailer Bestseller has partnered with one of its suppliers, Pakistan-based denim mill Artistic Milliners, on a farm-to-fashion traceability project for its organic cotton.
For almost a year, Artistic Milliners has been working with WWF-Pakistan and the local government in Baluchistan on organic cotton cultivation incorporating solutions that address social inequity and certification integrity at the design stage.
Dubbed 'Milliner Cotton Organic', the initiative is now moving to market in collaboration with Bestseller and its Jack & Jones brand.
"Milliner Cotton Organic is going to be a game changer for the industry," believes Omer Ahmed, CEO at Artistic Milliners. "Together [with Bestseller] we are working with blockchain-based traceability to implement processes that eliminate all kinds of loopholes from the value chain."
Farmers and female cotton pickers will not only receive fair profits but also benefit from basic life-skills training and financial literacy for greater awareness of the world around them.
"Direct-to-farm is unquestionably a good and well-founded approach when it comes to sourcing organic cotton," says Kim Frydensbjerg Klausen, production buying manager in Jack & Jones. "We have a long-standing, prosperous relationship with Artistic Milliners that has lasted more than six years. We are in constant close collaboration with them on how to innovate and renew the denim business and a lot of innovative projects been launched together with them over the years. We have no doubt that this project will also be a success."
In 2020, Artistic Milliners became one of the pioneer Pakistani contributors to the Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA), a multi-stakeholder organisation committed to bringing integrity, supply security and measurable social and environmental impact to organic cotton. Artistic Milliners aims to transition Milliner Cotton Organic to the OCA FED Programme in 2022.
"At Bestseller, we are deeply committed to sourcing and using materials that have less impact on the environment – and Milliners Cotton Organic fits the bill," says Camilla Skjønning Jørgensen, sustainable materials & innovation manager, Bestseller.
"In Bestseller's Fashion FWD Lab, we target visionary collaborations exactly like this one, and we wanted to help them scale it up and bring it to a point where it not only meets all global standards of certified organic cotton but has also an added element of data-driven traceability in it. At the same time, Bestseller and Artistic Milliners wanted to ensure a direct-to-farm approach where we can improve and demonstrate the business case for the organic cotton farmers and suppliers – making this endeavour wholesome for the entire community.