INDIAN TEXTILE FARMERS FACE PRESSURE ON COTTON PRICES AS GROWERS PRESS FOR BETTER EARNINGS GUARANTEES
February 18th, 2024
Cotton farmers in India are holding street protests to press their demand for better compensation while the country’s textile and clothing industry still hopes to secure access to competitively priced cotton, even if market controls under consideration minimise price fluctuations.
“Being a cotton dominant economy, India should be price competitive in the international market and there should be some price stability,” Chandrima Chatterjee, secretary general of Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) told Just Style.
The problem is that Indian ...
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