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Telangana BJP president N. Ramachander Rao, connected Wednesday, assured farmers that the Centre volition proceed purchasing the full fabric harvest astatine Minimum Support Price (MSP) done the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) until March adjacent year, irrespective of quality.
He urged farmers not to “panic” implicit rumors of procurement restrictions. Addressing a property conference, Mr. Rao accused the Congress and BRS of spreading “misleading propaganda” against the CCI, claiming it had imposed caller conditions and caused hardship to farmers.
“The Centre has lone sought clarification connected reports of unusually precocious yields of 12 quintals per acre compared to past year’s 6.32 quintals, which look suspicious since different states reported little yields—Punjab (5.30), Gujarat (7), Andhra Pradesh (9), Karnataka (8),” helium said.
The BJP person asserted that the Narendra Modi authorities is afloat committed to farmers’ welfare. Telangana present has implicit 200 fabric procurement centres, up from 70–80 earlier, and the Centre is acceptable to acceptable up 100 much if the authorities proposes caller ginning mills. Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy is holding talks with CCI, authorities officials, and mill representatives to resoluteness issues, helium said.
To curb middlemen and guarantee transparency, the Centre has launched “Kapas Kisan-App”, which assigns clip slots to farmers, reduces congestion astatine centres, and enables nonstop slope transfers. Mr. Rao urged the authorities authorities to guarantee just procurement and advised farmers to merchantability lone astatine notified authorities centres.
