Organic cotton for a denim supply chain

The challenge

Denim brands want organic cotton, but Pakistan grows less than 1% of the world's supply. A denim manufacturer that wants a local, certified source has to help create it: find farmers willing to change how they farm, support them through conversion, and keep records that pass certification every year. In Balochistan, many of those farmers are smallholders working in dry conditions, far from support services.

What we do

• Onboard and register farmers and plots
• Run the Internal Control System, with internal inspection of every farm
• Train farmers through the season in organic practice: soil fertility without synthetic fertiliser, pest management without banned chemicals, careful water use
• Prepare the group for its annual certification audit
• Link certified seed cotton to certified ginners

What the programme delivers

Each season the programme produces a registered, trained and internally inspected farmer group, ready for external certification. It also produces seed cotton that can be sold as organic or in-conversion, with records that trace it back to the farm. Our field team in Lasbela (Bela) is growing with the programme.