Cotton market: After soybean, now cotton farmers are upset, cotton purchase is closed at CCI center for 10 days
By yash chouhan 2025-02-08 11:41:22
Cotton market: Following soybeans, cotton producers are now irate, and the CCI center has suspended cotton purchases for ten days.
Mumbai: Cotton farmers are not getting a fair price for their produce, while the government's ongoing CCI purchase has been suspended for 10 days. Cotton farmers have suffered huge losses due to the sudden closure of purchase. Because cotton is not getting a fair price in the private market. In such a situation, farmers were getting a fair price at the CCI center. However, the closure of the CCI center has also created difficulties for the farmers. The price of cotton in the private market is only Rs 6200 to Rs 6500. At some places, these prices have fallen to Rs 6,000. After the CCI stopped the purchase, the prices of cotton are falling in the private market. Therefore, farmers are demanding that CCI start cotton purchase centers.
On the other hand, soybean farmers have become aggressive. The central government has stopped the purchase of soybean. However, soybean of most of the farmers in the state has not been purchased yet. Therefore, farmers are demanding an extension of the deadline for soybean purchase. The state government has sent a letter to the central government demanding continuation of purchase till February 13. Therefore, now it will be important to see what decision the central government takes on this.
The opposition has also become aggressive on the issue of soybean. Farmer leader Ravikant Tupkar has warned the government to extend the deadline for soybean purchase or else they will stage a strong protest. Some leaders have demanded that cotton purchase should continue for a month.
