Growth Prospects for India's Cotton and Textile Industries

Maurice Landes , Stephen MacDonald , Santosh K. Singh , and Thomas Vollrath

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: cotton;    India;    textiles;    clothing;    apparel;    Multifiber Arrangement;    synthetic fiber;    spinning;    weaving;    China;    trade policy;    policy reform;    seed varieties;    fiber quality;   

RP-ID  :  CWS-05D01

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 摘 要 】

India's prospects are changing now that the Multifiber Arrangement (MFA) no longer governs world textile trade. Decades of industrial policies that were both inward-oriented and biased toward small-scale production continue to influence India's textile trade prospects. While the recent introduction of genetically-modified (Bt) cotton has revitalized prospects for cotton production, quality issues are likely to hamper Indian cotton sales until the structure of India's cotton marketing system changes significantly.