General
(From the Department of Agriculture)
The receipts of loose cotton at presses and spinning mills in the Madras Presidency, from the 1st February to the 15th August, amounted to 4,53,467 bales of 400 lb. lint, against an estimate of 552.700 bales of the total crop of 1924-1925. The receipts in the corresponding period of the previous year were 356,578 bales: 105,443 bales mainly of pressed cotton were received at spinning mills and 253,575 bales were exported by sea while 3,293 bales were imported by sea mainly from Bombay.
Published – August 25, 2025 03:05 am IST