India to attend Beijing cotton workshop
India has confirmed its participation in a two-day workshop on cotton supply and its use in the 21st century, the Washington-based global cotton body ICAC has announced.
The conference with the theme, “Estimating cotton supply and use in the 21st century” will start on June 21 in the Chinese capital and discuss ways to improve systems of estimating supply and use of cotton in major economies.
The China National Cotton Information Centre (CNCIC), subordinate to the China National Cotton Reserves Corporation under the State Council, will host the workshop.
The workshop will also discuss best practices in estimating cotton supply and use, gathering and evaluating data and coordinating different sets of data between agencies in the largest producing countries as well as improving accessibility of the data, the ICAC said.
India is the world’s second biggest cotton producer. The country’s cotton production is expected to touch a record 33.9 million bales of 170 kg each this year.
