The globe marks World Cotton Day on October 7th every year since 2019. The international day aims to celebrate the advantages of cotton, ranging from its qualities as a natural fibre to the benefits people obtain from its production, transformation, trade, and consumption. WCD Day was initiated by the Group of Cotton-4 countries namely Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali to reflect the importance of cotton as a global commodity.
World Cotton Day also strives to emphasize the problems that the world’s cotton economies experience, as cotton is important for the world’s least developed, emerging, and developed economies.
History of the day:
The initiative of World Cotton Day was born in 2019, when four cotton producers in sub-Saharan Africa– Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, known as the Cotton Four -proposed the World Trade Organization a World Cotton Day celebration on October 7.