Very limited financing available to farmers not using chemicals. Bank financing is readily available to farmers using chemical-intensive techniques to ensure yields and returns on investment. Workers may be exposed to residual pesticides in ginning and spinning mills. Yarn and processing Small number of mills leads to higher prices due to lack of competition. Fierce competition between mills keeps prices low.
Mills charge more due to loss of time in closing down machines to clean before running organic.
Mills run continuously and high efficiency keeps cost down. Higher costs resulting from extra time spent training old suppliers and working with new suppliers. Established supplier relationships and methods run automatically with minimum time and attention. More costly high fixation dyes used on cloth results in less water clean-up after dyeing. Less water used in dyeing conserves resources and uses less dyestuff in solution.