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Goyal said that containment of factors impinging on productivity needs to be tackled in a time-bound project mode manner and the industry should participate in a self-regulatory model
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There is a need for realistic, accurate statistics across the value chain and ensure traceability, sustainability and circularity based on self-compliance utilizing technology, said Union Minister of Textiles, Piyush Goyal during his meeting with the newly constituted Textile Advisory Group in Mumbai.
Goyal said that containment of factors impinging on productivity needs to be tackled in a time-bound project mode manner and the industry should participate in a self-regulatory model.
The ginning segment should take responsibility and make pheromone trap technology mandatory to monitor and prevent the spread of pink bollworm pest attacks from ginneries and oil extraction units to cotton crops in farmers’ fields.
He suggested that everyone be sensitised to the compulsory use of pheromone trap technology through the wide network of the Cotton Corporation of India combined with efforts of the state governments in this regard.
The minister also urged the industry to develop models for improving Ginners' efficiency and outturn.
Goyal directed that a portal be created with inputs from the Cotton Association, Ginners as well as Confederation of Indian Textile Industry and the Southern India Mills’ Association.
The portal to work on self-compliance mode. If persuasion and self-compliance do not yield results then ‘disincentives’ can be built in the systems like Cotton Corporation of India not to do any transactions with such defaulters and any government benefits be linked to submission of details.