Cotton supply chain is a vital job-creating sector, from agriculture to fashion industry. With the COVID-19 creating a dent in the economy with about 30 million people on unemployment benefits in the United States, how to grow the economy is a serious challenge. Growing the manufacturing sector such as the textiles should be seriously looked into. Textile industry should develop near to long-term strategies to diversify and grow. In India, over 45 million people are employed directly in the textile sector that contributes about 2 % to the GDP, highlighting the importance of this sector in employment and economy. More importantly, cotton sector cuts across two major areas of the economy: 1) agriculture and 2) manufacturing. A discussion with preeminent people whose experience spans the fields of cotton economics, genetics, cotton spinning and communication provided valuable information.
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