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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CCI centres few and far away, Haryana cotton farmers forced to sell to pvt players at low prices -Sukhbir Siwach

CCI centres few and far away, Haryana cotton farmers forced to sell to pvt players at low prices -Sukhbir Siwach

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published Published on Oct 10, 2020   modified Modified on Oct 13, 2020

-The Indian Express

This year, the Haryana government had claimed that there would be 40 procurement centres of CCI, but official sources in CCI said that till now, only 17 centres have become functional in the state, which is just two more than the centres set up in 2019.

Chandigarh: “How could I have taken my 10 quintals of narma cotton to Dhigawa mandi, which is 60 km away, to get minimum support price (MSP)? I sold my crop to a local trader at the rate of Rs 5,120 per quintal instead of Rs 5,725, which has been fixed as MSP of cotton this year,” says Jaipal Bishnoi, a resident of a dhani (hamlet) situated near Siwani mandi of Haryana’s Bhiwani district.

“Traders are buying cotton at much lower prices than MSP. For MSP we have to go to the procurement centre of Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), which is at Dhigawa. Another CCI centre is situated in Adampur town, which is 65 km away from Siwani. In the current circumstances, MSP is just a distant dream for us,” added Jaipal, who had cultivated cotton in one and half acres.

This year, the Haryana government had claimed that there would be 40 procurement centres of CCI, but official sources in CCI said that till now, only 17 centres have become functional in the state, which is just two more than the centres set up in 2019. Dhigawa’s centre is among the new centres opened this year. Last year, only 25 per cent of the total cotton produced in Haryana was purchased by the CCI at the rate of MSP. The left-out farmers have to sell their produce to private players. This year too, farmers are forced to sell cotton below MSP in the absence of adequate CCI procurement centres.

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The Indian Express, 10 October, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/cci-centres-few-and-far-away-haryana-cotton-farmers-forced-to-sell-to-pvt-players-at-low-prices-6719015/


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