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HYDERABAD
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has decided to proceed the procurement of the fibre/yarn harvest till the month-end pursuing a petition made by the State government.
According to Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao, the CCI had truthful acold procured 16.15 lakh tonnes of fabric valued astatine ₹12,823 crore from implicit 8.8 lakh farmers. He stated connected Saturday that helium had written to the Union Textiles Minister, CCI and 2 Union Ministers from the State G. Kishan Reddy and Bandi Sanjay Kumar requesting them to widen the procurement day since the 4th picking of fabric was inactive going on.
He asked the farming assemblage to marque usage of the extended deadline for fabric merchantability and merchantability their nutrient to CCI astatine the minimum enactment terms of ₹8,110 per quintal by pursuing the just mean prime norms. He further stated that 2.24 lakh tonnes of low-quality fabric was besides purchased from farmers successful the marketplace and different 9.99 lakh tonnes of fabric stocks were inactive disposable with farmers.
Though determination was immoderate absorption from the farming assemblage and ginning mills to the ‘kapas kisan’ app introduced to registry their details, the State authorities had addressed their concerns 1 by 1 and made them marque usage of the app. Booking the details of their nutrient (cotton) connected the app was allowing the farmers to bring the banal to the procurement centre astatine the appointed/given clip and debar keeping their nutrient successful queues astatine the procurement centres, the Minister said.
A conception of the farming assemblage (cotton producers) were disquieted with the accusation successful circulation that CCI was stopping procurement adjacent earlier the full crop/cotton was picked. Now that the CCI had extended the time, the farmers could merchantability each their produce.
According to the agriculture section officials, fabric was raised successful 50.7 lakh acres during 2025-26 Kharif play but lone 45.32 lakh acres remained safe, arsenic the harvest successful the remaining grade was damaged severely successful the dense rains and floods. The accumulation of fabric was estimated astatine 28.29 lakh tonnes from 45.32 lakh acres.
