Market Overview
India represents a unique juxtaposition in the global textile supply chain. On one hand, it possesses some of the world’s most advanced IT capabilities; on the other, its agricultural base for raw cotton is heavily fragmented across thousands of smallholder farms.
Tech Infrastructure Advantage
Unlike other manufacturing hubs, Indian factories can easily partner with domestic software firms to deploy ERP systems and blockchain ledgers required for the EU DPP.
[!TIP] Indian manufacturers who integrate their domestic ERP systems with GS1 EPCIS (Electronic Product Code Information Services) early will gain a significant competitive advantage in the European market.
Raw Material Bottlenecks
The tracing of organic and conventional cotton back to the specific farm is the largest data gap. Future compliance will require widespread adoption of farmer-level digital IDs and mobile-based crop logging.