CCI closed, cotton purchase shifted to private market
By yash chouhan 2026-03-25 13:15:24
Cotton purchase from CCI stopped: Farmers turned to private traders, purchased more than 1500 quintals of cotton in a week
Since CCI has closed cotton procurement centers in the district from March 13, farmers now have no option but to buy cotton from private traders. Farmers of the district including Khamgaon are selling the cotton kept in their homes to private traders.
After CCI procurement stops, private traders will buy cotton by paying Rs 100 to 200 more than CCI. On this hope, about ten percent of the farmers of the taluka kept the cotton at home. Now when the hope of price rise is gone and CCI procurement has stopped and seeing that even its deadline will not be met and it is dangerous to store cotton at home during summer days, farmers of various villages are taking vehicles to the factories of private traders and counting it in their pards and giving money hand over hand. The situation is similar in the district as well as in Khamgaon. At present, it is known that only three private traders, Amit Goenka, Vasant Pandey and Trilokchandra Agarwal, are purchasing cotton in Khamgaon and currently BT cotton is coming for sale in the market.
Three private traders of Khamgaon city have purchased more than one and a half thousand quintals of cotton in the last eight days. It has been told that 231 quintals of paddy was purchased on March 14, 156 quintals on 16th, 204 quintals on 17th, 271 quintals on 18th, 285 quintals on 19th, 205 quintals on 20th, 131 quintals on 21st and 172 quintals on 23rd.
The cotton sold by farmers on March 23 was purchased at a higher price on Monday by private traders at a price of Rs 7400 to Rs 7700 per quintal. This price is Rs 300 more than the cotton purchased before March 23. In such a situation, the farmers who sold cotton on March 23 got a higher price.
