A meeting was held at New Delhi under the chairpersonship of the Minister of Textiles, Giriraj Singh, to review the overall cotton situation in the country. Lalit Kumar Gupta, Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), attended the meeting along with senior officials of the Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC).

The meeting reviewed various aspects of the cotton sector, with particular emphasis on better utilisation of the existing infrastructure and capacity across the cotton value chain.