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India Oct-Jan cotton exports surge to 2.8 mln bales


India Oct-Jan cotton exports surge to 2.8 mln bales
Thu Feb 4, 2010 12:06pm IST

MUMBAI, Feb 4 (Reuters) - India's cotton export in the first four months of 2009/10 jumped by 245 percent to 2.79 million bales, data on  textile ministry's website showed. In Oct-Jan the country shipped 2.79 million bales, compared to 809,969  bales  year ago, data showed.
India's cotton exports are expected to jump by 57 percent to 5.5 million bales in 2009/10, A.B. Joshi, textile commissioner and  chairman of Cotton Advisory Board (CAB), said in November.(1 bale=170 kg)
(Reporting by Rajendra Jadhav; Editing by Sunil Nair)
Source:http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINBMB00979320100204

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