Quality was the central focus of the Buyers' Mission in Western Bahia.

After an immersion in Mato Grosso cotton farming, the Buyers' Mission, from the Brazilian Association of Cotton Producers (Abrapa), moved to Bahia, the second-largest producing state. In Western Bahia, the delegation consisting of 20 executives from textile industries from six different Asian countries learned more about how Brazil carries out the control and classification of cotton quality indicators. “One of the fundamental aspects for the buyer is the reliability of the product. That is why there is so much interest in the quality and traceability parameters of Brazilian cotton. The visit to Bahia made it clear to the buyers that the system we adopt is safe and efficient,” assessed Gustavo Piccoli, president of Abrapa. In addition to the farm and the ginning mill of the Sete Povos Agro group, in Luís Eduardo Magalhães, the delegation of importers visited the fiber analysis laboratory of the Bahian Association of Cotton Producers (Abapa), in the same city. The unit is the ...