跟雷竞技一样的软件IDH，可持续贸易倡议推出了报告 - “迈向加倍棉花农民收入“和“商业案例棉花性别主流化”在2019年5月9日在印度孟买 - 共享的机会，评估在棉花行业在马哈拉施特拉邦可持续农业的做法。
该报告发布之后是小组讨论，其中来自机构，包括更好的棉花倡议（BCI），棉花研究中心研究所（CICR），CottonConnect，官立专家。马哈拉施特拉邦，国际农业开发基金（IFAD），自我就业妇女协会（SEWA）和联合国开发计划署（UNDP）的讨论报告中的主要建议。代表棉花实施和供应链合作伙伴（交易商，估价师，轧棉商和纱厂），服务供应商，资助者，政府项目，专家及科研 - 本次活动从54个组织参加了超过75名代表。
“走向加倍棉花农民收入”的报告，通过知识的合作伙伴Technoserve准备，扼要说明了向印度增加一倍农民的家庭净收入的战略。研究主要集中在马哈拉施特拉邦，这是该地区最大的棉花种植州，但有国内产量最低。然而，结果可以在印度被应用到农民，甚至国际上其他发展中国家的棉花种植国家。其中一套建议，报告提到高密度种植和基于皮棉销售为解决农民的生计可能改变游戏规则的做法。
在谈到该报告基于对市场皮棉，Nawin索娜，IAS，秘书官立建议。of Maharashtra and M.D. at Maharashtra State Cotton Growers’ Marketing Federation (MAHACOT) said, “The current scenario in the cotton supply chain is extremely complex, there is a loss of value to the farmers at various stages – and the report has brought out this information in a useful way. To implement a lint-based market system, we need to work back down to field. The farmers would have to be involved through FPOs and government intervention to aggregate at scale and even use the right quality of inputs and practices. The ginners have to be incentivized to generate good bales. Spinners are ready to pay for good quality. We will have to work towards making a demonstration that the lost value will be recovered under this model and will benefit the farmer.”
“商业案例性别主流化棉花”，通过知识的合作伙伴善良咨询，看上去准备建设农场的角色和责任的性别分工的理解，参与决策和获得生产资源。这项研究调查了两个女人修炼的农场经济的贡献，并限制其在培养角色的各种障碍。
Commenting on women’s role in farming, Shraddha Joshi Sharma, IRS, Vice Chairman and MD, MAVIM (Maharashtra Women Development Cell under the Department of Women and Child Welfare) stated, “Many women are working on the field but they are not considered as farmers. They need to be recognized as farmers and the economic value of their work needs to be recognized as well – and this has come out well in the IDH reports. In our projects in Amravati, we have seen women learn very soon about farm inputs and interventions, which they have not only implement easily but also trained male and female farmers to adopt the same.”
说起该报告所提出的建议，Pramit昌达，国家主任 - 印度，IDH，得出结论，“报告确实给我们带来了棉花产业的变化，通过改变现状的某些基本面的有形的和可实现的途径。如果我们找到一个方法来实现马哈拉施特拉邦这些建议，与现有的和新的合作伙伴，这将是在这种变化带来”一个很好的机会。