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production. This will help reduce vulnerability of cotton
sector to ever-increasing water-stress worsened by cli-
mate vagaries.
The Ministry of Textiles, as the lead partner on the Indian
government side, guides the project on main intervention
areas based on its vision for textiles in India, through the
establishment and convening of the project Steering Com-
mittee for project progress review and guide the project
implementation. MoT enables the interface and coordina-
tion with the project nodal officers in the 4 states of
Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh.
MoT participates in the various International Textile Con-
ferences and major GIZ organised events for sharing the
Indian experiences and best practices, especially those
emerging from this join Indo-German collaboration project.
It also holds meetings with the GIZ project team for as-
sessing technical progress, identify best practices and
mapping key impact-results from time to time. This pro-
vides Ministry the evidence based best practices for
mainstreaming and scaling up and in need-based policy
changes.
The GIZ project envisages increase volume of cotton pro-
duction atleast on 90,000 hac with participation of 1.50lakh cotton farmers with yield increase by 10%. Since
2019, BMZ has been promoting sustainable production
and local processing of cotton in Burkina Faso, India,
Cameroon and Uzbekistan. The goal is to increase the
incomes of farmers and to promote the creation of job
opportunities in the cotton sector & in cotton processing.
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