SLIDE 2 Our Traceability and Impact:
▪ We have total traceability in our chain going back to individual marginalised cotton farmers. ▪ Our principal factory in India works on Fairtrade buying terms with 3,200 vulnerable tribal cotton farming families in the Telangana region mainly in partnership with Chetna Organic. ▪ The ultimate ambition of our factory CEO, Ranga, is to support 10,000 marginalised cotton farming families. ▪ In addition to the guaranteed consumption of all their cotton produce, the factory works to enhance education, healthcare and infrastructure. ▪ Our factory also pays a bonus to the cotton farmers to maintain organic farming practices. This helps to avoid the usage of GMO seeds, which are proven to push farmers into an irrevocable debt cycle. ▪ Organic farming avoids the use of harmful pesticides. In India, cotton farming accounts for 54%
pesticide consumption, whereas only 5% of the land is used for cotton farming.
