India is still miles away from tapping the full potential of organic cotton despite a major global share of 56 and a promise of 20 higher return for farmers from this white gold. The ITJ cover story portrays the problems and prospects, and it also includes inputs from KR Kranthi of ICAC, Amit Narke of Purecotz, Sumit Gupta of GOTS and Avinash Mayekar of Suvin Advisors. Trailblazer is on Coimbatore-based ELGi Equipments, which is on road to become No.2 in air compressors. EnterPRIZE is on Candor Textiles; while Face2Face carries interviews of two industry personalities – Anjani Prasad of Archroma and Marc Jarrault of Lapp Group India. Also, don’t forget to read our review on Texfair 2017, which took place in Coimbatore recently. ​