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Cotton and Textiles and leather

Textiles and leather depends on cotton.

Cotton (commodity) and Textiles and leather (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Cotton → Textiles and leather

4 of the enterprise types in Textiles and leather depend on cotton; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 4 enterprise types depend on it
  • 3 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Cotton growers and ginners: the crop itself (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Yarn spinning mills: main fibre (criticality 2 of 5)
  • Weaving and knitting mills (including powerloom clusters): yarn content (criticality 2 of 5)
  • Home and made-up textile manufacturers: main fibre (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.