Organic cotton

Well it has been some time since my latest blog post about Indian organic cotton and the problems. I was busy all week and now i have some time to tell a little more about the organic cotton farming.

First off all, the fields or the seeds are not different for organic cotton than the conventional cotton. The main difference is the used & non-used chemicals. While farming cotton seed, you have to use a lot of water (which is very bad considering the global warming issues) and you have to use several pesticides. Those pesticides are used mostly for keeping the bugs away from the cotton and crop. And pesticides are accepted worldwide to be highly carcinogenic (canser-causing).

However water takes those Continue Reading »

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As i had tried to explain in my previous post about fake organic cotton, it is really hard to trust people while you are trying to manage a multinational global business. Besides that, most of us only look for the best price. Price is mostly the number one factor that effects ouor choices for the manufacturer choosing decisions.

India, Turkey, USA, Peru and Tanzania are the few leading organic cotton farmers in the world. Tanzanian(and the other African) organic cotton is cheap and fair traded however the quality is so poor to make any nice piece of clothing from that cotton. So this cotton is mostly used for towels and bathrobes, bedlinen etc.

The second cheapest organic cotton is mostly coming from India. Continue Reading »

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It is not a secret now that the demand for organic clothing is rising quickly. People are willing to buy more natural clothing to themselves to prevent from harmful chemicals that are used at several textile processes.

However, there are also some clever people who are trying to make more money on using this weakness of people. I mean how will you trust that the t-shirt you purchased is really organic? There are 3 common usages of organic cotton.

a) You use the normal/conventional cotton and claim that it was organic. Continue Reading »

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People are at the moment becoming increasingly responsive that we requisite to save from harm our environment. That is why we are seeing a lot of sustainable advancement plans that have been produced by various companies.

Many companies are now manufacturing biological baby clothing for infants and paternity are immediately adopting these materials.Organic cotton baby clothing has recently made its ghost in the world of baby fashion and there are several parents that are switching to this material. They are sentence it helps appearance after the future of their world for all the family.

One of the disadvantages of nonchemical fiber baby clothing is that it is relatively affluent compared to ordinary clothing. Continue Reading »

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With a responsiveness of the amount of biological usage in cotton production and the resulting ecological loss, there is worry about conventional cotton production, and a move to nonchemical cotton production. Organic cotton making has low environmental collision and aims to build and keep soil richness and build a biologically varied agricultural routine.

Independent certification confirms that organic makers comply with true criteria.Organic cotton production mirrors only 0.05 percent of the universal cotton production. Continue Reading »

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Hello to all,

This is my very first post on my new organic cotton blog. I will be posting all my knowledge about organic cotton textile products to this blog and i will try to pass all my information to you in a short time being.

So please bookmark this organic cotton site and visit often.

Best Regards
Erik Cussack

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