Organic cotton Cotton, grown on just five per cent of Indian agricultural land, consumes more than 50 per cent of the total pesticides used in India. Cotton gowers rely heavily on pesticides to control insects, diseases weeds and growth regulators. The intensive use of pesticides endangers human health as well as soil health, agro-ecology, leads to reduced profits for the farmers and creates an avoidable monoculture. Organic cotton is the solution.
Organic cotton is cotton grown without the use of synthetic fertilisers, perstcides or defoliants.
1999, Organic Cotton from field to final product Organic cotton in Indian Organic cotton production in India makes for not even a miniscule percentage of the total cotton production.