Leading trade body of textile industry hailed the initiatives taken in a recent meeting of Union Textiles and Agriculture Ministers for holistic growth of Indian cotton textile value chain.
In a joint statement, T.Rajkumar, Chairman of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), Manojkumar Patodia, Chairman, The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL) and Ravi Sam, Chairman of The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA), who attended the stakeholders meeting, appreciated the unstinted efforts constantly taken by the Minister of Textiles Piyush Goyal.
The annual cotton production in the country dropped to the lowest level of 315 lakh bales in recent years due to erratic weather, pink boll worm attack and lack of technology and good farming practices.
Realising the urgent need for enhancing cotton production, productivity, quality and branding Indian cotton, the Union Textile Minister, Piyush Goyal, constituted a Textile Advisory Group and also conducted all cotton stakeholders meeting along with the Union Minister of Agriculture, Narendra Singh Tomar and came up with numerous short- and long-term strategies to mitigate the current challenges.
The textile minister advised the stakeholders to come together in a mission mode for holistic growth of cotton textile value chain in India.
The strategy to have testing facilities from farm to industry and also the production of clean and contamination-free cotton would soon enable the country to brand the Indian cotton and its textile products on par with any other international cotton.
The decision of using coloured HDPE bag for fertiliser packing would resolve the perennial problem regarding white HDPE contamination present in the Indian cotton as the farmers use these bags for handling of Kapas (seed cotton).
source code:-https://apparelresources.com/business-news/trade/trade-body-appreciates-ministry-textile-ministry-agricultures-initiatives/
