Zara-owner Inditex has taken a stake in "sustainable agriculture" start-up Galy

Its CEO Garcia Maceiras said: "Today, we are disclosing that we have entered the capital of Galy, a start-up founded in 2019 in the US which is developing an innovative process to produce cotton in laboratories from plant cells.”

The investment could push Inditex towards its goal of sourcing 40% of its fibres from recycling and 25% from “next-generation” materials by 2030.

Galy describes its mission as “saving the planet by transitioning the world to cellular agriculture”.

Its cotton product is made from using harvested cells from a cotton plant. The cells are grown in bioreactor or fermentation vessel and the final product is dried and harvested.

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