Requirements for Organic Cotton and Textile.


The conventional cotton production uses large quantities of chemical pesticides & fertilizers. This will not only increase the cost of cotton production but also pollute the environment and contaminate our land, it also have ill effects on human health. Organic cotton growing will help in protecting our environment from pollution as well as in preventing our land from degradation. The by-product of cotton i.e. cotton seed is usually use for making edible oil as well as the cake is used for animal feed.
Organic Cotton and Organic Textile are in great demand in Europe and USA.

Organic Certification of Cotton and Textile


Cotton growing and ginning are certified organic in accordance with various Organic Crop Production Standards such as India’s National Program for Organic Production (NPOP), the US National Organic Program (NOP) or the European Organic Standard EEC 2092/91. However, those standards do not include other types of textile processing. The Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS) was developed to address that gap and provide an internationally recognized standard for organic textile certification. GOTS includes standards that require safer dyes and chemicals, environmental protection, social accountability and product quality. OneCert also offers an organic fiber content verification when the full GOTS standard has not yet been implemented. This verification provides independent confirmation that organic fiber was actually used in the amounts claimed.

Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS)

The aim of GOTS is to defined requirements to ensure Organic Status of Textiles from harvesting of the raw materials through environmentally and socially responsible manufacturing up to labeling in order to provide a credible assurance to the end consumers. Final products that are produced and manufactured in compliance with all compulsory criteria of these standards may be sold, labelled or represent as