Represents amount of deferral revenue for shipments.

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Represents the amount related to maximum portion of cotton tagging fee waived.

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- Definition

It represent amount of short term accounts receivable.

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Amount due from customers or clients, more than one year from the balance sheet date, for goods or services that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to the estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection.

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Amount of deferred revenue as of balance sheet date. Deferred revenue represents collections of cash or other assets related to a revenue producing activity for which revenue has not yet been recognized. Generally, an entity records deferred revenue when it receives consideration from a customer before achieving certain criteria that must be met for revenue to be recognized in conformity with GAAP.

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- Definition

The amount of consideration recognized during the period for the milestone or milestones.

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- Definition

Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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SUMMARY OF ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Detail Textuals) - USD ($)	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
	Jun. 29, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2016	Sep. 30, 2016
Revenue Recognition, Multiple-deliverable Arrangements [Line Items]
Deferred revenue			$ 2,259,707	$ 2,737,588
Revenue for government contract awards		$ 504,349
Short term accounts receivable			4,775,339	4,621,345
Long-term accounts receivable revenue recognized			920,000	1,535,000
Deferral revenue for shipments			$ 2,106,584	$ 2,305,000
Himatsingka America Inc
Revenue Recognition, Multiple-deliverable Arrangements [Line Items]
Maximum portion of cotton tagging fee waived	$ 250,000