A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was recently signed in New Delhi between Germany’s Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Indian textiles ministry to implement the Indo German Technical Cooperation Project on ‘Sustainability and Value Added in the Cotton Economy’. The aim is to raise value addition in sustainable cotton production in India and strengthen downstream processing.It will focus on four states—Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu—and will work closely with them and related agencies, a textiles ministry press release said.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Indian minister of state for textiles Darshna Vikram Jardosh said the GIZ project is aimed at increasing volume of cotton production at least on 90,000 hectares with participation of 1.5 lakh cotton farmers with yield increase by 10 per cent. About 30 per cent will be women beneficiaries.
An MoU was recently signed between Germany's Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit and the Indian textiles ministry to implement the Indo German Technical Cooperation Project on 'Sustainability and Value Added in the Cotton Economy'. The aim is to raise value addition in sustainable cotton production and strengthen downstream processing.#
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