Ventile supporting organic cotton cultivation in Egypt

Ventile will in future offer financial support to The Egyptian Biodynamic Association (EBDA). This will enable the association to help more cotton farmers in their efforts to transform their land into self-sustaining biodynamic farms, further details of which can be found in a press release.

“To have an opportunity to collaborate with an association such as the EBDA and to work directly with the source of cotton production is a vital step forward to achieving our goal of creating a traceable and transparent supply chain for Ventile”, comments Ventile Brand Director, Daniel Odermatt, in the press release. This is a milestone in the 80-year history of the textiles firm, he adds. Odermatt also hopes that other companies will opt to get involved in this project so as to “further drive biodynamic cotton farming for textile production”.

This partnership allows the farmers’ association, which operates throughout the whole of Egypt, “to invest in capacity building of regenerative agriculture for cotton production”, as Justus Harm, Co-Executive Director of The Egyptian Biodynamic Association, explains in the press release. This helps to improve the livelihoods and well-being of many more farmers and their communities, he adds.

Due to increased demand for sustainable practices in the textiles trade, Ventile announced in 2021 that it would no longer be using perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFC) for waterproofing purposes, for example. The Ventile product range consists of recycled cotton, organic cotton and a variety of hemp, lyocell and linen blends. The company’s fabrics are waterproof, windproof, water-repellent and breathable. mm