A worker fills a vacuum pipe with cotton to clean it at a cotton processing unit in Kadi town in the western Indian state of Gujarat February 9, 2015. India is expected to be the world's top cotton producer in the season to September 2015, with a likely output of 40 million bales. India's domestic cotton demand is expected to rise about 3 percent to 31.1 million bales this crop year. However, Indian firms are delaying purchases on hopes prices continue to drop, as they have been doing. (Photo by Amit Dave/Reuters)
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