CITI raises a red flag over exports of cotton

03 May 2012 Evaluate

Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has raised a red flag over exports of cotton stating that allowing further exports of the fiber could lead to shortage of the commodity in the domestic market. If this happens Indian traders will be forced to buy cotton from abroad at a higher price. This observation is based on the fact that demand for textile items in the domestic market is now recovering which would demand more consumption of cotton in the coming times.

The government has recently decided to allow further exports of cotton in 2011-12 marketing year as production estimates have been revised upwards by the Cotton Advisory Board (CAB) and the Agriculture Ministry.

The government has banned further exports of cotton on Mach 5 fearing domestic shortages. However the ban received a lot of criticism from all quarters. Hence the ban was first partially lifted wherein exports of already registered orders was allowed. Subsequently the government has lifted the ban completely and new registrations are expected to start soon.

However CITI is of the opinion that the textile is already under pressure due to rising raw-material prices and high interest rates which have hit silk, spinning, handloom and powerloom units hard. Infact majority of textiles mills in the country have already registered huge losses and they are finding it difficult to repay loans.

Therefore, CITI  has requested the government and the Reserve Bank to restructure loans to help the cash-starved textiles units to tide over the crisis. Earlier this month, the CAB had revised production estimates upwards to 347 lakh bales from 345 lakh bales for the current season. It had also revised domestic consumption estimates downwards to about 250 lakh bales from 260 lakh bales earlier. The Agriculture Ministry too had revised upwards cotton output to 352 lakh bales from 340.8 lakh bales.

 

 

 

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