Textile Commissioner Roop Rashi has said that the Australian Parliament has ratified the Australia – India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (ETCA) which would bring a lot of changes to the textile industry. She further cited that till now we have set many targets for the cotton and textile industry but now it is high time to work towards achieving the same and that too in a timebound manner.
She was addressing the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI)’s 2nd Global Cotton Conference.
The theme of the conference was ‘Game-Changing Technologies and Traits for Achieving High Yields and Fine Quality of Cotton’.
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She remarked that both the Ministry of Textiles and the Ministry of Agriculture have been able to achieve synergy in their operations which is one of the major breakthroughs in their efforts toward the upliftment of the cotton farmers.
T Rajkumar, Chairman CITI informed that CITI is directly undertaking Cotton Development and Extension Activities through its extension arm- CITI Cotton Development & Research Association (CITI CDRA) for more than past 50 years wherein at present about one lakh cotton farmers are directly associated with CITI CDRA in three states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
Sunil Patwari, Chairman, TEXPROCIL; M. M. Prabhakar Rao, Chairman, NSL Group; Prashant Mohota, Member, CITI’s Standing Committee on Cotton & MD, Gimatex Ltd and many other experts from across the industry addressed the event.
