SIMA Cotton Development & Research Association has submitted a proposal to develop ELS cotton, organic cotton and naturally colored cotton to the. The association has designed and developed a Kapas Plucker that enables farmers to double their net income apart from producing contamination free and least trashy cotton. Cotton Corporation of India, Ministry of Textiles and Government of Tamil Nadu have been extending subsidies to SIMA CD & RA and the farmers during the last two years both for ELS cotton promotion and also for the free distribution of SIMA Kapas Plucker machines to the farmers.

Last year, the government of Tamil Nadu provided subsidy to distribute 200 metric tons of SIMA ELS seeds to farmers free of cost through Cotton Corporation of India (CCI). CCI and Tamilnadu government have also distributed around 9000 Kapas Plucker Machines at free of cost to the farmers.

Coimbatore has signed an MoU with SIMA CD & RA for the production of ELS organic cotton cultivation by supplying all the inputs at free of cost to the farmers and also guaranteeing to procure cotton at market price. The MoU has been signed for the production of ELS organic cotton on a pilot basis in an area of 500 acres at Semmandipatti Village, Namakkal District. The organic ELS cotton will have staple length of over 33 mm and would be suitable to produce organic yarn of counts upto 80s. The crop duration is around 160 days and expected to give the productivity of 10 quintals per acre.