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IKEA, the Swedish furniture company, 10 percent of whose global cotton suppliers are from India, plans to increase sourcing of cotton from India for its textile requirements as it gears up to start retail operations there by next year.
The company, which is working with around four lakh farmers in India through local partners under its better cotton initiative (BCI) programme, is sourcing almost one-third of its global requirements from India.
