T.Rajkumar, Chairman, Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), ManojkumarPatodia, Chairman, The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council (TEXPROCIL) and Ravi Sam, Chairman of The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA), appreciated the unstinted efforts constantly taken by PiyushGoyal, Union Minister of Textiles in forming a Textile Advisory Group.
The industry leaders urged stakeholders to holistic growth of cotton textile value chain in India as advised by the Textile Minister. The strategy to have testing facilities from Farm to Industry and also 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 colored HDPE bag for fertilizer 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), said the veterans.
The leaders hailed the tremendous opportunities that would emerge with the signing of FTAs with UAE and Australia and significant progress made for conclusion of FTA’s with EU, UK and Canada. Also with the support of benefits extended in the form of RoSCTL, RoDTEP, NTTM and PM MITRA schemes, the demand for quality cotton would increase exponentially. They said that the efforts made by Goyal would bring back the dominance of India in the international market. They appreciated the decision of using right seeds, adoption of modern technology and progressive agricultural practices would enable India to increase the yield and profit margins of the cotton farmers.
