Dr. Siddhartha Rajagopal - Executive Director - TEXPROCIL while sitting in one of the panels iterated that, in the 3rd Global Cotton Conference so far, much discussion has taken place on sustainability.
We have put in place a sustainability model which has done this quite well. We're running 150, 000, pages loaded. About 47, 000 are pages worth certified. That's pretty good. The fact is, it may look a little slow, but then, as we move forward we find that the system is now capable of doing this.
The blockchain is the backbone of the customer-basing system.
And the blockchain model as we know is decentralized and immune to the data of the transactions. And, as we said, this is an important fact. Blockchain technology allows you to pull the transactions universally. And therefore, we have evidence of each of the transactions.
This also allows all the players to participate so to say sort of access the information and be part of the formulating of the guidelines. The next point that we would like to make is that it is backed by the two QR codes.
The two QR codes are in this system, if you write the time to check, a sample is drawn, the QR a unique number is generated, and then that QR is within the chain, up to the equipment, and finally when the product is put out on the market.
So, therefore, the QR code is very important. We need the QR code and the material that we're using from some special fabrics. It's not as if you otherwise. But every effort has been made in short, that the system is done properly. And then as far as possible, the system becomes tamper-proof also.
I mean try out that link of the tamper-proof, there are various examples of other standards where they react to the tamper-proof. The digital record that is created is unique. And then it's an open-access platform. So you're able to provide for sustainability.
I mean, for instance, region, ECI, SEEDS, various activities, automated and an organic process. All these platforms are on the farm side. And they're at the farm gate. So you get all your physical, I mean, your economic and financial, and social compliance. They're there at the farm gate. This is a platform available in which it can be tested on the panel.
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We have already had and when the time is up, you are also taking the ICD 8 You are also doing the CDCEI, which is also promoting under certain conditions that are understood as sustainable. So, the platform is unique in the sense that it allows you to plug in. And, I've also got one last point I'd like to make.
This is perhaps, our duty that one of these only standards, which gives you a test report on regulatory compliances, on cache, and monitor. You get a real-time report, which is available to you. And what is your choice? Therefore, I would like to only appreciate and complement all those involved.
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As we go forward, the model is improving and various other aspects I'm going to be talking about sustainability, particularly. Today, everybody asks for sustainability. Kasturi Cotton? A plain vanilla Kasturi cotton will not do some USP can be value accretion which will be great. We have also now extended its product coverage.
It was 29 and 30 million metric tons (Mt). Last week we met, the committee has met, and it's done. They have now formulated it up to 24, 35 million metric tons (Mt). So between 28 and 32 and beyond, it's still on the schedule. I think we have some more hours of discussion.
Hopefully, that will be also announced shortly. So therefore you have an entire spectrum of products.
And all friends in all parts of the farms, running sustainability programs, inviting people to be clients, plugging people to be voters, and getting people to be successful.
And I'm sure, as we go forward, that the Indian cotton, subsisting the area that we occupy, subsisting the land that is, we are the second largest producer of cotton, it will be a milestone, which we have all been talking about for a very long time, and perhaps the reality is not very far.