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HYDERABAD
Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao spoke to officials of the Textiles Ministry connected Sunday, and requested them to instrumentality a affirmative determination connected problems faced by ginning mills, pursuing expanding unit from farmers against the caller norms successful fabric procurement.
The caller guidelines issued by the Textiles Ministry, peculiarly successful the sanction of L1 and L2 norms, were causing problems to the ginning mills and successful protestation they had decided to spell connected onslaught from November 17. He besides appealed to the authorities to reconstruct the 12 quintals per acre procurement against the caller norm of allowing lone 7 quintals of fabric acquisition per acre.
As suggested by the authorities of the Textiles Ministry, district-wise fabric output details were collected, and if necessary, the authorities was prepared to supply adjacent farmer-wise output statistics.
As per the details collected astatine the tract level, the mean output of fabric was 11.74 quintals per acre and a petition was made to contented orders revising the 7 quintals per acre norm with 12 quintals.
The ‘anti-farmer’ decisions by the Textiles Ministry and Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) person allowed lone 1.18 lakh tonnes of fabric procurement from 67,000 farmers truthful far. At a clip erstwhile the fabric procurement was expected to prime up momentum, the determination to spell connected onslaught by ginning mills and halt procurement would not augur good for farmers, helium said.
The Minister stated that farmers had already suffered a batch owed to excessive and untimely rains and were overcoming it now, with sunshine helping their nutrient suffer moisture content.
