Sustainable Cotton at India’s Top Textile Companies: Reference Profiles

India is the centre of gravity for sustainable cotton — the world’s largest Better Cotton country and the largest organic-cotton producer. Its big textile groups are where sustainable-cotton commitments meet the field. This index profiles them one by one, using only each company’s own published reports (Integrated Annual Reports, BRSR, ESG and sustainability disclosures) plus Better Cotton and Textile Exchange definitions. Each profile covers the programmes the company runs, the figures it publishes, and how it handles traceability — and, honestly, where an independent field-and-verification layer fits.

Company profiles (live)

More profiles are being added. Looking for a specific company? See the full list of Better Cotton members in India and the suppliers directory.

How to read these profiles

Sustainable-cotton numbers move year to year with reporting scope, and the words get used loosely. A few things to keep in mind as you compare companies:

• Member vs Programme Partner. Many companies are Better Cotton members (they source Better Cotton); a Programme Partner additionally runs the farm-level work.
• Mass balance vs physical traceability. Default Better Cotton tracks volume, not origin; a firm ‘traceable to farm’ claim needs a physical chain of custody — see what mass balance means.
• Different standards, different claims. Better Cotton, organic and regenerative are not interchangeable — see organic vs Better Cotton vs regenerative.
• Check the year and scope. A ‘sustainable share’ or farmer count is reported against a specific year and boundary; two numbers are not always like-for-like.

Where an independent field & verification layer fits

Across every profile, the pattern is the same: credible sustainable cotton rests on what actually happens in the field, season after season. The largest, most integrated players run their own farmer programmes. Most brands, mills and Programme Partners do not — and that is where Anaxee fits, as the independent, tech-enabled field-execution and verification layer: reaching cotton farmers at scale, running the recurring season work, and producing third-party ground-truth to stand behind a claim. Anaxee has no cotton to sell, is not a Better Cotton member or certification body, and does not buy or sell cotton.