Cotton procurement at MSP expands 4% to top 104 crore bales.
Procurement of cotton at minimum support price by the state-run Cotton Corporation of India for the ongoing marketing season 2025-26 has crossed 104 crore bales of 170 kg each. This is about 4 per cent higher than last year’s 100.16 lakh bales.
Telangana tops the list of states where the maximum quantity has been procured, followed by Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Lalit Kumar Gupta, Chairman cum managing director, CCI told that the procurement has touched 104.01 crore bales till date. The cotton procurement season is in the ending stage with March 13 being the last date for purchase at MSP.
Further, Gupta said CCI has sold about 17.50 lakh bales from the 2025-26 crop so far.
Statewise Telangana tops the list where CCI has procured maximum quantity of cotton, followed by Maharashtra and Gujarat.
CCI had purchased 31.70 lakh bales in Telangana and 27.23 lakh bales in Maharashtra.
In Gujarat, the cotton procured till date is 19.96 lakh bales.
Karnataka is the fourth largest state where cotton procurement stood at 7.01 lakh bales.
In Madhya Pradesh, the procurement has exceeded 5.55 lakh bales, while in Andhra Pradesh it stood at 3.90 lakh bales. In Rajasthan, the procured quantity of cotton stood at 3.46 lakh bales.
CCI has procured 2.70 lakh bales in Odisha, 2.04 lakh bales in Haryana and 0.47 lakh bales in Punjab.
Cotton procurement during 2025-26 is likely to be the second highest in volumes since 2019-20, when the state agency had procured over 1.05 crore last bales. Last year, CCI had procured 1 crore bales.
As per the second advance estimates released early this week by the Agriculture Ministry, the cotton production during 2025-26 season is estimated at 290.91 lakh bales of 170 kg each, lower than last year’s 297.24 lakh bales on reduced acreages, excess rains hurting the output.
Recently, trade body Cotton Association of India (CAI) had revised upwards the crop estimate for 2025-26 by around 2.5 per cent or 7.5 lakh bales of 170 kg each to 317 lakh bales on higher than estimated production in Maharashtra and Telangana. CAI, has projected a year-end surplus 122.59 lakh bales for the 2025-26 season, up 56% year-on-year on record imports of 50 lakh bales during the year.
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