The A.ba Cotton - Gossypium arboreum race cernuum is a short staple indigenous fibre which is ginned using a traditional tool - Kelka, then hand-opened, hand-carded and entirely spun by hand using a drop spindle - Takuri.

Among the Garo people of Meghalaya, indigenous cosmological tradition regulates agricultural practice through a dense framework of ritual observance, seasonal taboos, and ecological ethics. Garo cotton cultivation is embedded within this framework: planting, harvesting, and seed conservation are governed by calendrical rites that function, in ecological terms, as adaptive management strategies.

The indigenous cotton varieties maintained within this system are significant beyond cultural continuity. Landraces conserved by smallholder farmers represent reservoirs of genetic diversity far exceeding what formal gene banks preserve  particularly for traits of climate resilience: drought tolerance, pest resistance, adaptation to marginal soils. In a period of escalating climate volatility, the seed sovereignty practised within Garo agroecological systems is a practical hedge against agricultural collapse, not merely a cultural value. The continuity between cosmological and ecological knowledge in Garo practice reflects worldviews in which the natural and social worlds are understood as fundamentally interdependent, and in which ritual functions to maintain the health of both. The 7WEAVES documentation of Garo cotton therefore proceeds not only as botanical inventory but as an act of ethnographic attention attending to the knowledge systems that make sustainable cultivation possible in the first place.

Among the Garo community of Meghalaya, indigenous cosmology and ecological knowledge regulate the agricultural practices, interconnected to their kinship, religious belief, and ecological ethics. Garo a.ba cotton cultivation is a regenerative agriculture framework, where from sowing to harvesting, to seed grainage is governed by rites and rituals   

Garo Cotton is cultivated within the traditional multicrop Jhum farming system, where Indigenous customs and beliefs guide agriculture through interconnected relationships between community, spirituality, kinship, and ecological responsibility.