Organic cotton yarn from Turkey
Well it has been some time since my latest blog on this board.
I was very busy with several seminars across India, Turkey and Usa for the local farmers regarding the benefits of organic farming.
Problems with the organic cotton quality for the Indian cotton are still the same. The GMO issue is also still a very big problem which i had mentioned shortly on my previous Big problems with Indian organic cotton! post.
During my visits the huge yarn spinning facilities in Turkey impressed me a lot. Read the rest of this entry »
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).