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.
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.
