India can lead international textile market once more, although China at 10x now: Rahul Gandhi

From Andhra Pradesh’s kalamkari and ikat to Gujarat’s ajrakh, Rajasthan’s bagru, Bengal’s jamdani and the as soon as world-renowned Indian ‘chintz’, based mostly on block printing — each 100 kilometres in India reveals a distinct textile custom, a distinct artwork type and a distinct story, Gandhi factors out.

However behind all this magnificence and heritage lies a problem, Gandhi famous in his YouTube put up.

“As we speak, nearly all of India’s cotton is genetically modified BT cotton — managed by international companies corresponding to Monsanto.

“Our indigenous varieties are disappearing, our water utilization [to support the BT variety] is unsustainable and our farmers stay underpaid.

“Regardless of being one of many largest cotton producers, India lags practically 10 occasions behind China in textile exports,” he famous.

Talking to Gandhi, the Singh household (which has direct, intimate interplay with the availability chain) emphasised that India can reclaim its place as a worldwide textile powerhouse — however provided that the nation invests in indigenous cotton, builds built-in textile zones and creates India-led international certification methods. In any case, we’ve got traditionally had the widest and deepest and oldest data and experience of those crafts.