International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) will hold its annual Plenary Meeting from December 06-09, 2021.

For the first time ever, the ICAC will conduct the event virtually due to the continuing uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. While that’s unfortunate, the skills that the Secretariat have been acquiring in 2021 will be maximized in coming years by including a virtual component to all future Plenary Meetings.

Registration for the meeting is free to all. It will focus on the theme‘‘Fortifying the Cotton Supply Chain: New Approaches to New Challenges.’he World Café topic will be ‘Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability’The Open Technical Session is on ‘Advances and Challenges of Hybrid Cotton Technology’. The meeting will be held on the Interprefy platform to accommodate simultaneous interpretation in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic.

Formed in 1939, the ICAC is an association of cotton producing, consuming and trading countries. It acts as a catalyst for change by helping member countries maintain a healthy world cotton economy; provides transparency to the world cotton market by serving as a clearinghouse for technical information on cotton production; and serves as a forum for discussing cotton issues of international significance. The ICAC does not have a role in setting market prices or in intervening in market mechanisms.