The Hindu Business Line : Enhance cotton acreage: Sisspa

THE South India Small Spinners Association (Sisspa) wants the Tamil Nadu Government to promote cotton acreage in the State in a big way to enable the textile sector access raw material at lower cost.

The textile units in the State account for 35 per cent of the country's spindleage and sufficient raw cotton availability would reduce these units dependency on raw material supplies from outside the State. This would also bring down the cost of cotton by saving on transport cost, Sisspa said in a statement.

It also suggested that the farmers in the delta region could be encouraged to raise cotton acreage considering the constraints in finding irrigation for vast paddy crop.

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