Indian Cotton Yarn and it's Utilities.

Textiles occupy a big chunk of our economy, and their yarns  run through the lives of millions of cotton farmers and weavers who produce fabrics.

Intimately woven into the everyday fabric of Indian life, the story of our textiles illuminates how the policy choices we have made since independence have kept millions of rural farmers and weavers impoverished and destroyed the environment. 

In other words, textile policy has enabled the triumph of productivity and profits for industry which go hand in hand  over farmers, weavers and environment.

The recent amendment to Indian flag code is but a reflection of the twinned policy choices which undermine development of the textile sector especially handloom.

The decisive push for powerlooms to manufacture tricolour will displaced massive numbers of handloom and khadi weavers from their sources of livelihoods. 

Handloom fabric is handwoven from industrial yarn, while khadi fabric is handwoven from handspun yarn, and handloom and khadi operate in distinct spheres.

The second, equally important policy choice in the textile sector was the facilitation of the rapid advance of polyester in lieu of cotton  which impacted cotton farmers, as well as handloom weavers most of whom worked with cotton. 

In a nutshell, these developments will further impoverished millions of handloom weavers,not to mention the environmental impacts of powerlooms factories.

Indian cottons go back millennials, and it's 

stories of how they travelled far from our borders in ancient times are legendary.

Indian textiles was preferred accross the world for many centuries, and  after the arrival of Europeans in the subcontinent, Indian cotton fabric was the kingpin of manufactured goods in world trade from the sixteenth century up until the industrialisation of Europe.

Cotton is a cellulosic natural fibre. Additionally, cotton comes from cotton plants when it grows in many countries including America, India, Egypt and others. Moreover, cotton is a seed fibre. 

Even more, cotton fibres convert into yarn through various processes such as spinning, weaving, dyeing and wet processing. Besides, it uses to produce colourful threads, colourful fabrics, and blended fabrics with polyester, lycra and other textile

For a warm country like India, cotton has been the best fabric grown and worn over the decades. And ever since we became independent, cotton has seen a lot of changes with the fabric quality improved significantly.

Not only is desi cotton sustainable but also one of the healthiest fabrics today. 

Over the last seven and a half decades the cultivation and productivity of cotton have seen a massive upgradation from 33.36 lakh bales of 170 kg each in 1947 to 300 lakh bales in 2021, an increase of a whopping 500 per cent.

Cotton is the backbone of the Indian textile industry, which consumes 70 per cent of the country’s total fabric production and accounts for at least 40 per cent of the exports, and fetches crores annually to the exchequer

Called the healthiest fabric ever, Indian cotton has seen significant changes in production qualities for being strong, flexible, easy to care for, and breathable.

Advantages of Indian Cotton:

Breathable.

Durable.

Naturally insulating.

Non-allergy.

Infection free.

India is the only country to cultivate four cotton species on a commercial scale:

Gossypium arboreum, G.herbaceum, 

G.hirsutum, and G.barbadense.

Cotton is a popular material in the textile industry and the most used natural fiber for manufacturing cloth for our clothes. .It accounts for 40% of all fibers used in textiles and is one of the world’s top cash crops 

We have applied the versatile natural fiber to many uses, from fashion to home furnishing and industrial applications..Cotton is water

intensive as a crop and in manufacturing.

About 2,700 liters of water are needed to produce a single cotton t-shirt. .That is enough drinking water for an individual for two and a half years. Dyed cotton fabrics look great, but dyeing fabrics consume about 5 trillion liters of water every year worldwide. About 20,000 liters of water is needed to produce a kilogram of cotton fiber.

Cotton farming uses 24% and 11% of the world’s insecticides and pesticides, respectively. It also uses 4% of the world’s artificial phosphorus and nitrogen fertilizers

Experts estimate that cotton consumes 8 million tonnes of synthetic fertilizers and 200,000 tonnes of pesticides globally every year.

It would be extremely difficult and almost impossible to stop cotton production totally. That is why the world needs a better way to grow cotton. 

Many believe organic cotton is a more sustainable alternative to regular cotton. It appears to solve the environmental issues that are associated with conventional cotton.

"I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or Cold. Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics."

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