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The Telangana Farmers’ Commission briefed Governor Jishnu Dev Varma connected the aggregate challenges confronting fabric farmers successful the State, peculiarly the hardships arising from caller procurement norms of the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI).
A delegation led by Commission Chairman Kodanda Reddy, on with members K.V.N. Reddy, Gopal Reddy, Ramulu Naik, Bhavani Reddy and Bhoomi Sunil, met the Governor astatine Raj Bhavan connected Monday, and submitted a elaborate practice connected the issue.
Mr. Kodanda Reddy pointed retired that CCI opened its procurement centres aboriginal than accustomed this season, aggravating the woes of farmers who had already suffered extended harvest harm owed to dense rains. The mandatory request for farmers to registry connected the Kapas Kisan App and the bounds of 7 quintals per acre acceptable for procurement were causing superior inconvenience, helium explained.
Cotton was cultivated successful astir 48 lakh acres this twelvemonth successful Telangana, and galore farmers incurred terrible losses owed to adverse upwind conditions. “After managing to prevention their harvest from the cyclone, farmers are present distressed by restrictive CCI rules,” the Commission told the Governor.
The squad besides expressed objections to the Draft Seed Bill–2025 released by the Centre, stating that husbandman organisations crossed the State person raised divergent concerns implicit the projected legislation.
