MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s cotton production in 2024/25 is likely to fall by 7.4% from a year ago to 30.2 million bales because of lower area and as excessive rainfall damaged the crop, a leading trade body said on Tuesday.
The drop in production could lift cotton imports to 2.5 million bales in the new season started on Oct. 1 from 1.75 million bales a year ago, the Cotton Association of India (CAI) said in a statement.
(1 bale= 170 kg)
(Reporting by Rajendra Jadhav; editing by Jason Neely)
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