SIMA CD & RA elects office bearers for 2017-18

11 Sep '17

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(L-R: B Lakshminarayana, R Elango and R Ravichandran); Courtesy: SIMA

The SIMA Cotton Development and Research Association (SIMA CD & RA) has announced its office bearers for 2017-18. B Lakshminarayana, Vantex Limited MD has been re-elected as the chairman, R Elango, Sangeeth Textiles Ltd ED has been re-elected as the deputy chairman and R Ravichandran, Veejay Yarns & Fabrics Ltd director has been re-elected as vice-chairman.

The members for 2017-18 were elected at the 42^nd annual general meeting of SIMA CD & RA held in Coimbatore.

SIMA CD&RA is a registered non-profit organisation, established in the year 1974 by the textile mills in the Southern States of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Pondicherry. Its main objective is to promote the development of cotton farming for enhancing cotton production, productivity and fibre quality so that the raw cotton may be made available at reasonable price to the textile mills. It supplements the efforts of the state and central governments and other agencies in promoting the increased production of quality cotton to meet the demands of the textile industry.

Recently, SIMA CD&RA jointly with Point Industries (sister concern of Sharp Industries, Coimbatore) developed an indigenous kapas plucking machine in a cost effective manner. With this machine, a farmer can pick 60-80 kgs of kapas per day as against 12-20 kgs of manual picking and it picks only matured and fully bursted kapas without any trash and contamination. The machine was tested by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and the test report certified that 42-62 kg of seed cotton had been picked per day with this machine. Tamil Nadu Government sanctioned 50 per cent subsidy for this machine so as to motivate the farmers to opt for cotton cultivation, thereby increase cotton area and sustain the textile industry. (RR)

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