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Gujarat, which has long been a hub for premium cotton for textile mills in Tamil Nadu, in the wake of increased adulteration with substances like comber noil and other cotton waste by Gujarat’s ginners, they has drastically cut back their cotton procurement.
The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) seeks the Union textile ministry intervention in this regard. Till the year before last, Tamil Nadu’s mills used to procure about 50-60 lakh bales from Gujarat alone.