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Cotton price fall: Question on government

By yash chouhan 2025-07-05 10:51:36
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Cotton price issue: Government responsible for falling cotton prices

Nagpur : The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday (3) reprimanded the state government and the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) for not having any concrete policy regarding cotton procurement centers in the state. Deliberate delay in opening procurement centers benefits private traders and causes huge financial loss to farmers. The court said that this delay is directly responsible for the falling prices of cotton and the state government is responsible for it.

The PIL filed by Shriram Satpute of Maharashtra's Upbhokta Panchayat was heard before Justice Nitin Sambre and Justice Sachin Deshmukh. According to the petition, cotton procurement centers are opened late every year. Due to this, farmers are forced to sell cotton to private traders at a price lower than the guaranteed price. After this, these traders make huge profits by selling the same cotton at a higher price. This causes loss to the farmers.

In this case, CCI had submitted an affidavit in the court and told that 121 cotton procurement centers have been started in the state from October 1, 2024. Also, 7 more procurement centers have been started in the state on the request of the state government and public representatives. That is, a total of 128 cotton procurement centers are running in the state.

On the other hand, the petitioner had claimed that CCI is giving wrong and misleading information to the court. The petitioner had also said that tenders were issued to start many cotton procurement centers in December 2024 and January 2025. From this it is clear that many cotton procurement centers were not started in October.

If the procurement centers had started in October, then why would the secretary of Krishi Upaj Mandi Samiti write a letter to CCI requesting to start the center? After considering all the aspects in this regard, the court has fixed the next hearing of this case on July 28. Petitioner Shriram Satpute himself presented the arguments.

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Justice. Terming the matter as very serious, a division bench of Justice Nitin Sambre and Justice Sachin Deshmukh directed the state government to submit detailed information of cotton cultivation and production of the last three years before July 28. The court said that to protect the interests of farmers, the cotton procurement process should start on time and there should be transparency in it.


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