Chandigarh: The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has begun gearing up for procurement of around 100 lakh bales for 2018-19 season which commenced from Monday. This could possibly be one of the biggest cotton procurement exercises by CCI in recent years.
Maximum cotton procurement had last occurred in 2008-09 when about 96 lakh bales were procured, top officials of CCI said. Last season procurement stood at 3.08 lakh bales.