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China top buyer of cotton from India cutting in imports depressing prices, India will be forced to make large-scale government cotton purchases from farmers for a second straight year. In the marketing year that ended on Sept.30, India spent 160 billion Indian rupees ($2.5 billion) to buy 8.7 million bales of cotton at a government-set minimum support price (MSP), against just 400,000 bales in the previous year.