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Is the organic cotton exported out of India truly organic? That’s a question hanging over the certification of organic cotton.
The question arose after the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, or APEDA, the nodal agency for the export of agricultural products, recently suspended the licence of a leading certification agency. This came after an internal investigation revealed that the agency had certified non-organic cotton from grower groups (which are akin to farmer producer organisations, or FPOs) as organic cotton.
India, according to some experts, annually exports around 120,000 tonnes of organic cotton, most of which is certified by designated
