Cotton Council of India: Formation, Composition and Key Roles

Cotton Council of India (CCI)- Relevance for UPSC Exam

• GS Paper 2: Governance, Administration and Challenges- Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.

Cotton Council of India (CCI) in News

• Recently, Union Minister of Textiles, Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution has announced formation of Cotton Council of India, under Chairmanship of Shri Suresh Bhai Kotak.

About Cotton Council of India (CCI)

• About: Cotton Council of India (CCI) will discuss, deliberate and prepare a robust action plan for bringing out a tangible improvement in this field.
  • The first meeting of proposed Cotton Council of India (CCI) has been scheduled on 28th May 2022.
• Composition: Cotton Council of India (CCI) will have a chairman along with representation from-
  • Ministry of Textiles,
  • Ministry of Agriculture,
  • Ministry of Commerce,
  • Ministry of Finance,
  • Cotton Corporation of India and
  • Cotton Research Institute.
• Mandate: Cotton Council of India (CCI) aims to streamline and eliminate various challenges face by the cotton and yarn industry in the country and ensure a sustainable growth and progress of the sector.

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Cotton Industry in India

• About: Cotton yarn and fabrics export account for about 23% of India’s total textiles and apparel export.
  • In 2019-20, India’s cotton production was 36.04 million bales of 170 kgs each.
  • During 2019-20, export of cotton yarn, cotton fabrics, cotton made-ups and handloom products reached US$ US$ 10.01 billion.
• Associated Concerns:
  • Price Rise: There is a price rise witnessed in the current season due to poor productivity despite a large area under cotton production in the Country.
  • Poor Cotton Productivity: Cotton productivity is the biggest challenge in the country, resulting thereby less cotton production despite largest area under cotton cultivation.

Way Forward                                                                                                                                                                                                   

• Addressing Price Rise: All stakeholders must deliberated for softening cotton and yard prices on urgent basis, to address unprecedented price rise.
• Providing Quality Seeds: There is a need for making available better quality of seeds to improve productivity of cotton farmers.
• Collaborative Approach: all stakeholders must resolve cotton and yarn price issue, in the spirit of collaboration rather than competition and super profiteering.
• Insuring Farmers Welfare: There is a need for hand holding of cotton farmers who is the weakest part of cotton value chain, besides extending all possible support to stakeholders engaged in the backward and forward integration.

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