TEHRAN, Oct. 30 (MNA) – Iran is participating at the 75th Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) underway in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ebrahim Hezarjaribi, General Director of General Office of Cotton & Oilseeds at Ministry of Agriculture made the remarks saying “the 75th Plenary Meeting will be held from 30th October to 4th of November 2016 in Islamabad with the theme of ‘Emerging Dynamics in Cotton: Enhancing Sustainability in the Cotton Value Chain’.”
The official highlighted that the proposed agenda encompasses a broad range of topics including climate change, measures and methodologies to reduce the water footprint of cotton, enhancing the attractiveness of cotton production as a business proposition to farmers, sustainable production practices, challenges facing cotton in the textile industry, modern approaches to preservation of quality and reduction of contamination, state-of-the-art ginning and instrument testing practices, inter-fiber competition, and the role of the public sector in the production and trade of cotton.
The Committee is the outgrowth of an International Cotton Meeting held in Washington, in September 1939. Presently, a total of cotton-rich countries are member of the International Cotton Advisory Committee while Iran has been a member since 1960th.
Hezarjaribi said the annual cotton production volume amounts to 22 million tons asserting “India (5.8 million tons) and China (4.8 million tons) remain as the world’s largest cotton producers