6 months ago
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HYDERABAD
Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao asked the farming assemblage who raised fabric crops during the Kharif play to guarantee that they get the nutrient with a maximum of 12% moisture contented to the procurement centres to get the minimum enactment terms (MSP) of ₹8,110 per quintal.
He, however, requested the Centre to unbend the maximum moisture contented norm and nonstop the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to procure fabric with higher moisture contented astatine MSP to assistance the farming assemblage arsenic rains are occurring each on the harvesting/cotton picking play truthful far.
In a missive addressed to Union Minister for Textiles Giriraj Singh, Mr. Rao stated that the 2025-26 fabric selling play successful Telangana had commenced earlier this month. He stated that determination would beryllium a marginal diminution successful the wide fabric accumulation and the existent marketplace trends were indicating a downward question successful the planetary fabric prices.
Mr. Nageswara Rao stated that the country nether fabric cultivation successful the State this twelvemonth is 45.32 lakh acres and the estimated accumulation is 28.29 lakh tonnes. The moisture contented successful the fabric harvested successful October and November would scope betwixt 12% to 20% owed to the prevailing wet/rainy upwind conditions. But, the CCI is procuring fabric with a moisture contented ranging from 8% to 12%.
Farmers person represented to the State authorities that the moisture contented norm is causing hardship to them successful getting MSP for their nutrient and requested for enhancement of the permissible moisture limit. Mr. Nageswara Rao requested Mr. Giriraj Singh to see moisture contented up to 20% successful fabric procurement truthful arsenic to guarantee that farmers get the MSP for their produce.
