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The Centre has launched ₹600 crore “Kapas Kranti Mission” to beforehand high-yield, long-staple fabric cultivation done technological research, technological innovation, and hold services. Farmers successful Maharashtra, peculiarly successful the Akola region, person adopted High-Density Plantation (HDP) methods, importantly expanding yields.
The program is to replicate these practices successful suitable regions of Telangana by taking farmers to Maharashtra to witnesser these methods first-hand, proviso them with due seeds, and motivate them to follow HDP techniques. A post-harvest vulnerability sojourn to Akola is besides being planned for the farmers to observe palmy HDP practices, informed Union Minister of Coal & Mines G. Kishan Reddy connected Friday.
With respect to the existent fabric procurement, Mr. Reddy told a property league that presently astir 24 lakh farmers successful Telangana are engaged successful fabric cultivation, making the State the apical fabric shaper successful India. From October 21 to 24, agriculture and selling officials volition behaviour a five-day consciousness thrust crossed villages to beforehand the app and procurement process.
About 122 procurement centres are acceptable to unfastened post-Diwali. Committees led by District Collectors and comprising officials, police, gross officers, and husbandman representatives person been established astatine each procurement centre to code grievances and forestall exploitation, helium said.
A dedicated mobile application, “Kapas Kisan App,” volition besides beryllium launched to facilitate slot booking and streamline the selling process for farmers. The Minister urged farmers to usage the app which volition spell ‘live’ station Diwali enabling farmers to publication slots for selling their nutrient to docket their income and debar middlemen, ensuring just prices and transparency.
Awareness campaigns are being conducted done pamphlets, societal media, WhatsApp groups, and videos successful 9 languages. Advertisements successful newspapers besides supply details connected acceptable moisture levels and corresponding prices. Agriculture officers are besides visiting villages to assistance farmers with app registration and administer informational materials. Tech-savvy agrarian younker are besides helping chap farmers navigate the integer level to guarantee creaseless implementation, helium said.
A full of 345 ginning centres person been notified successful Telangana, with agreements finalized with CCI - Cotton Corporation of India. Slot booking consciousness is being promoted astatine the colony level by agriculture officers, panchayat officials, and progressive farmers.
A reappraisal gathering was held with CCI officials from Adilabad, Warangal, and Mahbubnagar, on with Telangana’s agriculture and cooperative section officers and the issues raised during the volition beryllium escalated to the Ministry of Textiles and CCI office for resolution, helium said.
The Centre, betwixt 2004 and 2014, procured 173 lakh bales of fabric worthy ₹24,825 crore done CCI. In contrast, from 2014 to 2024, procurement roseate to 473 lakh bales, with an expenditure of ₹1.37 lakh crore — a testament to the Centre’s enhanced enactment nether Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, helium said.
Over the past decade, the Centre has doubled the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for cotton. In Telangana and Andhra Pradesh alone, the Centre has spent ₹65,000 crore connected fabric procurement implicit the past decennary — ₹58,000 crore successful Telangana and ₹8,000 crore successful Andhra Pradesh, said Mr. Reddy.
The Minister claimed strict enactment is being taken against ginning mills and middlemen progressive successful malpractice. The authorities is besides cracking down connected counterfeit seeds, with respective companies and dealerships already penalized. Offenders are being booked nether the PD Act, and licenses are being revoked, helium added.
