The USDA has projected India’s cotton production for the upcoming season at 37.8 million bales. The Indian textile industry says a lot of it depends on the southwest monsoon.
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The new guidelines of the Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA) has been released for seed producers to prevent GMO contamination in organic cotton
The Committee on Cotton Production and Consumption expects the current year’s production to be 36 million bales, lower than last year’s estimate of 365 lakh bales. This dip is owing to the spread and impact of COVID-19.
Yarn from Coimbatore and Dindigul mills have slowly become more expensive and this is bringing down the profit margins of small and large textile businesses in Karur and is adversely affecting the textile export industry.
Declaring Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) standards sub-par, China plans to release a new set of quality guidelines to encourage high-quality cotton farming and improve production.
Through the adoption of practices such as minimal tillage, and the growing of winter cover crops, U.S.
cotton farms have improved soil health and increased soil carbon levels.
Though India has become the largest producer of cotton in the world, the country faces acute shortage of Extra Long Staple (ELS) cotton as the BT technology that was introduced during 2003, provided the technology only for long staple cotton.