India at present is the worlds third largest cotton producer and the second largest producer of textile goods.

Due to implementation of the country’s “Textile Up-gradation Found Programme” with a view to prepare the industry to pake on the Post-Quota regime after 2005 and also as a result of the pragmatic economic reforms initiated by the Govt. of India, serious developments are taking place currently in the raw cotton, cotton fabric and cotton textile industry sector.

The Country’s Cotton Crop Production which stagnated in the 1990s at about 13 million bales, is set to cross the 25 million bales in the current year.

Indian Cotton producers are continuously working to up-grade the quality and increase the cotton production to cope up with the increased global demand for cotton textiles and to meet the needs of the 39 million spindles capacity of the domestic textile industry which presently consumes about 12-14 million bales annually.