India reverses cotton export ban after farmer outrage
16:56, 11 March 2012
LONDON. March 11. KAZINFORM India has reversed a ban on cotton exports, less than a week after the ban was put in place.
There was an angry reaction from farmers when the government announced the policy last Monday, BBC News reports.
The government justified the ban by saying that India needed to protect supplies for its own cotton mills.
But farming groups were outraged and the agriculture minister complained that he was not consulted about the new policy.