1. Current scenario of the Cotton Industry
Raw material security.
Cotton production Vs Consumption by Mills.
Pink Boll worm attack.
Quality enhancement.
Bt3, Herbicide tolerant cotton.
Control of contamination by various best practices.

2. Sustainable Cotton Production
Challenging gender inequality.
Sustainable farming practices.
Implementing Partners in other countries.
Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) accounts for 14% of global cotton. Projected to touch 30% in 2020.
More Ginners can join the BCI program.
Kappas Plucker should be utilised more widely to bring down Kappas cost to less than 7% of Kappas price.

3. India’s present cotton import bill is
USD 991 Million [2017].
USD touching INR 70 will widen the import bill.
India has a very high trade deficit, traditionally due to Gold imports and currently due to Smart Phone imports.

4. International ELS & LS market
Israel though a very small producer (Israel Pima & Acalpi) is a consistent performer in terms of quality.
Crop size is 12,000 MT per year.
Israel overcame issues such as water shortage by developing best practices in farming and achieving world’s highest productivity per hectare of farm land.

5. International ELS & LS market
Egyptian Cotton went down in quality over the past 4 years. Now they have made a big come back.
Size of the Egyptian crop (2018/19) would be 85,000 MT.
Giza-94 (52,000 MT), Giza-86 (24,000 MT), Giza-95 (8,500 MT), Giza-90 (1,500 MT), Giza-92/96 (5,000 MT).

6. International ELS & LS market
US Pima is largely consistent in quality and spinnability.
Preferred cotton by quality spinners catering to the high end market.
Crop size is 1,52,300 MT per year.
Pima & Giza have been branded very successfully.

7. Indian ELS & LS market
India was a pioneer in the ELS segment by developing the DCH cotton.
Suvin crop size is miniscule, about 340 MT.
Now we import 60,000 MT of ELS cotton per year.
We need to focus more seriously on developing newer seeds and boost our Research & Development in improving our ELS output.

8. Indian ELS & LS market
Pure DCH (34 mm+ cotton) crop size has been in the range between 1.7 to 2.5 Lakh bales.
2017/18 total ELS (33 mm & longer) production is 95,000 MT and consumption is 1,55,000 MT.
India will have a huge potential if we brand and market our cotton internationally.
Our wish should be to see “Made in India” tag on popular branded garments.
This will strengthen the Fibre to Fashion supply chain.

9. World Cotton Consumption ( in Thousand MT )
Year
In Thousand MT %
26017
25146
-3%
22669
-10%
23567 4%
23929 2%
24436
24657 1%
25215
26613 6%
(P)
27641

10. World Textile Fibre End - Use

11. World Extra Long and Long Staple Consumption ( in MT)
2017/2018 %
2018/2019 Expected
INDIA
155000
36%
CHINA
160000
37%
150000
35%
PAKISTAN
29000 7%
EGYPT
15000 3%
25000 6%
PERU
12000
BANGLADESH
11000
TURKEY
10000 2%
USA
6500
INDONESIA
5000 1%
OTHERS
THAILAND
4500
GERMANY
3500
3000
JAPAN
ITALY
2500
AUSTRIA
SOUTH KOREA
TAIWAN
1500 0%
TURKMENISTAN
1000
MEXICO
500
 Total
430500
100%
430000

12. World Extra Long and Long Staple Production ( in MT )
2017/2018 %
2018/2019 Expected
USA
154000
35.5%
35.4%
INDIA 33mm+
95000
21.9%
21.8%
CHINA
70000
16.2%
Egypt
75000
17.2%
EGYPT
61800
14.3%
60000
13.8%
TURKMENISTAN
25000
5.8%
5.7%
ISRAEL
12000
2.8%
8000
1.8%
SUDAN
5000
1.2%
1.1%
PERU
4000
0.9%
SPAIN
3500
0.8%
UZBEKISTAN
1000
0.2%
GREECE
2000
0.5%
TAJIKISTAN
Total 
433300
100%
435000

13. Indian DCH Cotton Yarn Quality with Comparison of Imported Cotton
COUNT
80/1 COMBED COMPACT WVG
Mixing
DCH
SPANISH ELS
Diff % with DCH
G 94
US PIMA
USTER TESTER - 5
Thin (-50%) 12 10 8
Thick (+50%) 43 30 20
Neps (+200%)
125
100 47 60
Total / Km
180
140
-22% 75
-58%
-44%
UTR - 4
RKM
24.0
23.0
-4%
25.5 6%
27.5
15%
Realization %
65%
69% 4%
71%
76%
11%
Rate/ Kg. in Rs.
182 0%
206
13%
237
30%

14. Indian DCH Cotton Yarn Quality with Comparison of Imported Cotton
COUNT
100/1 COMBED COMPACT WVG
Mixing
DCH
SPANISH ELS
Diff % with DCH
G 94
US PIMA
USTER TESTER - 5
Thin (-50%) 25 35 30
Thick (+50%) 80 70 45
Neps (+200%)
245
145 55
100
Total / Km
350
250
-29%
125
-64%
200
-43%
UTR - 4
RKM
23.0
22.0
-4%
24.5 7%
26.5
15%
Realisation %
65%
69% 4%
71% 6%
76%
11%
Rate/ Kg. in Rs.
182 0%
206
13%
237
30%

16. Commodity Vs Currency
The hit taken by the Turkish Lira has affected emerging market currencies.
Turkey has an import bill of $ 3 Billion (2017) which is 6% of total cotton imports worldwide.
Crisis in Turkey will affect the textile segment in a significant manner.
Since demand falls, prices will soften.
NYF December’18 has fallen to c.