Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Indonesia's Cotton Demand May Increase 8 Percent Next Year, Official Says

(Bloomberg) -- Indonesia's consumption of cotton may
increase as much as 8 percent next year, helped by orders for
promotional T-shirts for the country's 2009 presidential election,
an Industry Ministry official said.

``We expect our textile output to grow by 7 or 8 percent
next year, meaning cotton consumption would increase by that much
too,'' Ansari Bukhari, director general of metal, textile
machinery and miscellaneous industries, said in a telephone
interview in Jakarta yesterday.


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