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CCI buys more cotton to help India’s farmers

17/01/2020
CCI buys more cotton to help India’s farmers

Having already procured 3.8 million bales of cotton since October, the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) is on track to buy more than 5 million bales in the 2019/2020 marketing year.  According to P. Alli Rani, chairman of CCI, the state-run cotton buyer had to step in because trade was not offering good prices to the farmers, which is standard...

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