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The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has shown reluctance to start procurement process of the season despite directions from Union textile minister for state Santosh Kumar Gangwar on October 1, leaving the market in the hands of private traders as the farmers have started bringing the first lot of cotton harvest to the mandis.
Even Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had met Gangwar on October 11, appealing him to direct the CCI to start procurement of cotton crop which had come under whitefly attack.
