Related Keywords: 5Fs formula, cotton textile industry, cotton traders, fabric to fashion, farm to fibre, Hussainiwala border, Punjab cotton ginners, revive cotton exports, Textile Park, textiles in Malwa region, traders and farmers
Punjab cotton ginners, traders and farmers upset over not getting big-ticket investment and technology upgradation for textiles in Malwa region. As Narendra Modi , while addressing a Lok Sabha election rally on April 25, 2014 had promised to take care of farmers of Malwa and cotton traders. He had suggested the '5Fs' formula - farm to fibre to fabric to fashion and fashion to foreign - to revive cotton exports if NDA was voted to power.