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India: Cotton stakeholders demand revised Cotton Technology Mission

The cotton stakeholders across the textile value chain have been demanding reintroduction of the Technology Mission on Cotton in a revised format with two mini missions focusing on technology development and technology transfer under the Ministry of Agriculture and another two mini missions focusing on clean cotton and branding Indian cotton textile products.

The Technology Mission on Cotton was announced in 1999 and closed in 2012. It made India the largest cotton producer and net exporter in the world. The Ministry of Textiles has already submitted a proposal to allocate funds to implement clean cotton and branding Indian cotton textile products missions. Additionally, Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA), has sent a representation to the Union Textile Minister seeking her intervention by empowering the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to enforce certain regulations to curb the malpractices resorted to by certain ginners.

It has suggested empowering the textile commissioner, the secretary, textiles committee, the Director, TRAs, CIRCOT, and CMD of CCI to make periodical inspection in ginning factories and take necessary action on the factories resorting to malpractices. Textiles committee should conduct periodical audits and recognise three to five-star rated ginning factories by posting the details on the CCI website and CCI should introduce the 16-digit RFID code for individual bale quality parameters on par with USDA that practises the same since 1991.

 

 
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