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Cash crops, Covid and the cost of unsold cotton -Jaideep Hardikar

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Huge quantities of cash crops lie unsold across India – like cotton in Maharashtra. A hunger crisis looms, yet farmers in Vidarbha plan to sow cotton, not food crops, once again this kharif season

Seventy-year-old Kisan Sakhru Pawar, patriarch of a joint farming family in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district, is very anxious. The climbing Covid-19 graph is not the main reason for his anxiety.

His concern: unsold cotton.

“We have 350 quintals of cotton, 100 quintals of tur [pigeon pea], and at least 50 quintals of green gram,” a worried Pawar told PARI over the phone.  The cotton is from all pickings of the last season. The tur has been lying with him since the previous kharif season. The remaining produce is from the rabi harvest of this March-April.

Thousands of farmers across the country are in the same position as Pawar – they’re unable to sell their cotton.

And here’s the puzzle: Kisan Pawar and thousands like him plan to sow cotton again this kharif season.

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