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Iran imports 60% of needed cotton from Central Asia

Business Materials 8 November 2014 16:07 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov.8

By Fatih Karimov - Trend: Iran imports 60 percent of its needed cotton from Central Asia.

Ali Mozaffari, Chairman of Iranian Cotton Producers Union, said the country needs at least 150,000 metric tons of cotton annually, and imports 60 percent of the volume from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan, Iran's Fars news agency reported on November 8.

Many of domestic textile production units have replaced cotton with synthetic fiber, such as polyester, he noted.

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