World Cotton Day 2022 is celebrated on October 7

World Cotton Day 2022:

October 7 is celebrated each year as World Cotton Day. Year 2022 marks the third-anniversary celebration of the international event. Below, we look at the theme of this year’s celebration, its history and its significance. Cotton fibre and cottonseed are two of the most heavily used plant products globally. India is one of the largest cotton producers globally. It is a multipurpose plant chiefly used in the textile industry but also in the medical sector, edible oil industry, animal feeds, and bookbinding, among others.

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World Cotton Day 2022: Theme

The theme for 2022’s celebration of World Cotton Day appears to be “Weaving a better future for cotton,” as apparent from the posters released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). The theme looks at sustainable farming of cotton to help improve the lives of cotton workers, such as labourers and smallholders and their families.

World Cotton Day 2022: Significance

World Cotton Day is celebrated across the globe through events that disseminate knowledge and give assistance to cotton farmers, processors, researchers and all other stakeholders about cotton production and marketing. The event provides an impetus for economic development of farmers as well as developing nations.

World Cotton Day: History

The first World Cotton Day was proposed by the World Trade Organization on October 7, 2019, by the Cotton Four, four sub-Saharan African cotton producers Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali, collectively known as the Cotton Four (WTO).The Cotton-4 countries` initiative to organise World Cotton Day was welcomed by the WTO on October 7, 2019. Together with the secretariats of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the International Cotton Advisory Committee, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the WTO Secretariat organised the event (UNCTAD). The initiative offers assistance to the “Cotton-4″ nations, which are Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, and other cotton-producing countries in Africa, to develop cotton by-products and its markets.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams: 

• World Trade Organization Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
• World Trade Organization Founded: 1 January 1995.
• World Trade Organization Director-General: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

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