Organic Cotton Online Retailers

Global retail sales of organic cotton apparel and home textile products reached an estimated $3.2 billion in 2008, according to the Organic Cotton Market Report 2007-2008. This represents a 63% increase from the $1.9 billion market in 2007. Despite the global retail outlook an estimated $4 billion market in 2009 and a $5.3 billion market in 2010.

Conventionally-grown cotton uses 10 percent of the world's pesticides and 25 percent of insecticides but it only occupies 3 percent of arable land. And those pesticides and herbicides pollute our water and our air. According to the USDA, in one year alone over 50 million pounds of pesticides were used on U.S. cotton fields.

Organic farming is better than other farming practices as it maintains and restores soil fertility without making use of chemical pesticides. The purchase of organic clothing is getting a philosophical and emotional decision, particularly in a gloomy economic environment. Top 3 reasons to use organic cotton are: reduce allergies to chemicals, stop poisoning the food we eat, protect the eco system.

In this story we posted the print screen of some online organic fibers retailers. A wide variety of products made from organically grown cotton is now available. The range of styles can still be somewhat limited, but new styles are being developed to keep pace with the growing demand for organic cotton clothing.

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