Frayed Futures: India’s Cotton Crop Unspooling Fast

Frayed Futures: India’s Cotton Crop Unspooling Fast
Stressed Out From sowing to spinning, every segment of India’s cotton value chain is under stress, affected by rising costs, outdated technology, and fragmented policy oversight across ministries. Fiotex Cotspin

India’s cotton story is fraying. Once the world’s largest producer, it now harvests less from more. Fields are shrinking, farmers are quitting, and seeds have stood still. The crop that once wove India’s textile strength now risks unravelling under policy paralysis, poor yields, and disjointed priorities from farm to factory.