Govt to import 0.4m tonnes of cotton soon

Commerce Minister M Faruk Khan Sunday said the government would take expeditious steps to import 0.4 million tonnes of cotton for meeting the demands in the country, reports UNB. "We're communicating with India and Uzbekistan for the import of cotton," he said when a delegation of Bangladesh Textile Mills' Association (BTMA) met him at his Secretariat office in the city Sunday.