Cotton Corporation of India slashes support price

The Cotton Corporation of India’s determination to slash the Minimum Support Price, has rattled the cotton farmers in erstwhile Adilabad district, who’re already saddled with excessive pure moisture content material resulting from foggy climate and pink bollworm an infection within the crops.

Starting Monday, the CCI mentioned that it could elevate the produce at ₹5,775 per quintal as in opposition to ₹5,825 per quintal for which the cotton was bought until Saturday.

The determination was taken because the power of the cotton ball is reportedly lower than 30 mm size this season due premature rains.

“Even the farmers, who got quality produce with strength more or less 30 mm length have to sell their produce for the new price,” an official mentioned.

Moreover, farmers can get ₹5,775 per quintal provided that the moisture content material is as much as 8 %. If moisture is greater than 8 %, the CII deducts the price per quintal and the farmer finally ends up getting much less cash.

So, to carry down the moisture content material, farmers in a number of villages within the district are drying their produce in entrance of the homes, earlier than it’s taken to the market yard to get good price.

M Sudarshan of Khodad village in Talamadugu mandal mentioned that for the previous few days he has been drying the crop in entrance of his home because the moisture content material was very excessive.

“This year, I got less produce due to bad weather conditions, and adding to that CCI has slashed the MSP,” he mentioned.

Every 12 months, Mr.Sudarshan will get not less than 80 quintals of cotton from his eight acre, however this time he ended up harvesting solely 30 quintals resulting from premature rains.

“Most of it was damaged due to rains and many have destroyed the crop due to pink bollworm infection,” he mentioned whereas drying the ‘white gold’ in entrance of his home.

Satish, one other farmer from Bela mandal mentioned that they must promote the cotton to CCI, as personal cotton merchants, who colluded with Ginning and Pressing manufacturing facility homeowners are taking undue benefit of the excessive moisture content material and exploiting them and providing low costs.

“If CCI rejects the product, we are forced to sell it to private traders and ginning factory owners at a very low price,” he mentioned.

Caught between mounds of cotton on one facet and watching much less web realisation, the farmers are thrown into the debt entice.

Earlier, small and medium ginning and urgent enterprisers alleged that they weren’t getting enough orders from the CCI to course of cotton ‘kapas’ into bales, as most of the cotton was despatched to a couple huge ginners.