Organic Cotton

The Organic Cotton Training Curriculum, launched by the Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA), is the first organic cotton growers training package developed in over a decade and includes in-depth modules and activity guides to work alongside existing participatory training methods.

Textile Exchange has called on brands and supply chain partners to proactively adopt an integrity system by reviewing and mapping their supply networks to check vulnerabilities and embed an anti-fraud and integrity policy.

A major regenerative cotton endeavour is under way in India—the Delight Group is working with the Good Earth Cotton initiative of Australia on a three-year project that will touch the lives of farmers in close to 2,000 farms. Delight Group Chief Executive Officer Abhishek Doshi and GEC Business Leader Shannon Mercer tell texfash.com about the challenges and prospects.

The blame for the low level of 'data confidence' in organic cotton numbers lies primarily with one country: India. The problem is that of India, but the entire world has to bear the burden. And, the Organic Cotton Market Report 2022 shows the strain that the world has to endure. A texfash.com analysis.

Buoyed by the rapidly growing demand, it is for the fifth year in a row that production of global organic cotton has increased. However, the bad news is that all data needs to be accepted with a pinch of salt, according to the latest Organic Cotton Market Report 2022. A texfash.com report.

Charges of greenwashing against some MNCs has pushed Textile Exchange to effect a policy change to its Organic Content Standard (OCS), making site inputs from the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) mandatory in a bid to provide traceability of all transaction certificate data back to the original farm source and farm input.

The first ever cotton varieties bred under organic conditions, developed through a decentralised organic participatory breeding programme, have recently been made available to farmers in India. These improved varieties are the outcome of joint efforts made under the project Seeding the Green Future. The varieties were developed through a decentralised organic participatory breeding programme of FiBL Switzerland and partners.

Last week, Control Union, one of the world’s largest certifiers of organic cotton, announced that it would no more certify cotton, among others. The entire certification process apparently was too much of a balancing act, Control Union sources tell texfash.com.