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&lt;em&gt;In Gujarat elections, BJP won 23 seats in cotton cultivation areas, while the Congress took 30&lt;br /&gt;
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra is worried about the electoral reversals the party suffered in rural Gujarat, especially the cotton-growing parts. Results of the Gujarat assembly elections announced on Monday showed the Congress made significant gains in the Saurashtra-Kutch region and north Gujarat where cotton and groundnut are the main cash crops.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the belt that accounts for 54 assembly constituencies, the BJP won only 23 seats, 12 fewer than in 2012, while the Congress took 30 seats, 14 more than in 2012. And across the state, the BJP won only 55 of the 127 rural and semi-urban seats as against 68 by the Congress.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission&amp;mdash;a task force formed to solve Vidarbha&amp;rsquo;s agrarian crisis&amp;mdash; and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&amp;rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.&lt;br /&gt;
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A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;ldquo;The scale of distress was apparently bigger and more serious than we imagined. What is worrying is that the cotton growers in Maharashtra are facing exactly the same problems as their counterparts in Gujarat&amp;mdash;a low remunerative price and a widespread attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton. The bonus of Rs500 does not seem to have helped much in Gujarat and that means the distress level among cotton growers in Maharashtra, who have not been given such bonus, could be higher,&amp;rdquo; said the minister requesting anonymity.&lt;br /&gt;
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Gujarat is India&amp;rsquo;s top cotton producing state, accounting for nearly 25% of the national yield. According to the estimates of the cotton industry and the state government, the state is likely to produce 50.50 million quintals of cotton in the 2017 kharif season. Cotton is grown over 2.7 million hectares in Gujarat. Though Maharashtra has larger acreage under cotton&amp;mdash;normally 3.8 million hectares but 4.2 million hectares this year&amp;mdash;it has lower productivity and was estimated to produce nearly 40 million quintals at the start of this kharif season.&lt;br /&gt;
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But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &amp;ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&amp;rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.&lt;br /&gt;
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The regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada account for nearly 65% of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s total cotton yield. Parts of North Maharashtra and Khandesh also grow cotton. Of the state&amp;rsquo;s 13.6 million farmers, nearly 4.5 million grow cotton, as per the state&amp;rsquo;s agriculture census. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
In the belt that accounts for 54 assembly constituencies, the BJP won only 23 seats, 12 fewer than in 2012, while the Congress took 30 seats, 14 more than in 2012. And across the state, the BJP won only 55 of the 127 rural and semi-urban seats as against 68 by the Congress.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission&amp;mdash;a task force formed to solve Vidarbha&amp;rsquo;s agrarian crisis&amp;mdash; and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&amp;rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;The scale of distress was apparently bigger and more serious than we imagined. What is worrying is that the cotton growers in Maharashtra are facing exactly the same problems as their counterparts in Gujarat&amp;mdash;a low remunerative price and a widespread attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton. The bonus of Rs500 does not seem to have helped much in Gujarat and that means the distress level among cotton growers in Maharashtra, who have not been given such bonus, could be higher,&amp;rdquo; said the minister requesting anonymity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Gujarat is India&amp;rsquo;s top cotton producing state, accounting for nearly 25% of the national yield. According to the estimates of the cotton industry and the state government, the state is likely to produce 50.50 million quintals of cotton in the 2017 kharif season. Cotton is grown over 2.7 million hectares in Gujarat. Though Maharashtra has larger acreage under cotton&amp;mdash;normally 3.8 million hectares but 4.2 million hectares this year&amp;mdash;it has lower productivity and was estimated to produce nearly 40 million quintals at the start of this kharif season.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &amp;ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&amp;rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada account for nearly 65% of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s total cotton yield. Parts of North Maharashtra and Khandesh also grow cotton. Of the state&amp;rsquo;s 13.6 million farmers, nearly 4.5 million grow cotton, as per the state&amp;rsquo;s agriculture census. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;In Gujarat elections, BJP won 23 seats in cotton cultivation areas, while the Congress took 30&lt;br /&gt;
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra is worried about the electoral reversals the party suffered in rural Gujarat, especially the cotton-growing parts. Results of the Gujarat assembly elections announced on Monday showed the Congress made significant gains in the Saurashtra-Kutch region and north Gujarat where cotton and groundnut are the main cash crops.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&amp;rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.&lt;br /&gt;
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A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple.&lt;br /&gt;
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But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &amp;ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&amp;rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;In Gujarat elections, BJP won 23 seats in cotton cultivation areas, while the Congress took 30&lt;br /&gt;
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra is worried about the electoral reversals the party suffered in rural Gujarat, especially the cotton-growing parts. Results of the Gujarat assembly elections announced on Monday showed the Congress made significant gains in the Saurashtra-Kutch region and north Gujarat where cotton and groundnut are the main cash crops.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the belt that accounts for 54 assembly constituencies, the BJP won only 23 seats, 12 fewer than in 2012, while the Congress took 30 seats, 14 more than in 2012. And across the state, the BJP won only 55 of the 127 rural and semi-urban seats as against 68 by the Congress.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission&amp;mdash;a task force formed to solve Vidarbha&amp;rsquo;s agrarian crisis&amp;mdash; and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&amp;rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.&lt;br /&gt;
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A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;ldquo;The scale of distress was apparently bigger and more serious than we imagined. What is worrying is that the cotton growers in Maharashtra are facing exactly the same problems as their counterparts in Gujarat&amp;mdash;a low remunerative price and a widespread attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton. The bonus of Rs500 does not seem to have helped much in Gujarat and that means the distress level among cotton growers in Maharashtra, who have not been given such bonus, could be higher,&amp;rdquo; said the minister requesting anonymity.&lt;br /&gt;
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Gujarat is India&amp;rsquo;s top cotton producing state, accounting for nearly 25% of the national yield. According to the estimates of the cotton industry and the state government, the state is likely to produce 50.50 million quintals of cotton in the 2017 kharif season. Cotton is grown over 2.7 million hectares in Gujarat. Though Maharashtra has larger acreage under cotton&amp;mdash;normally 3.8 million hectares but 4.2 million hectares this year&amp;mdash;it has lower productivity and was estimated to produce nearly 40 million quintals at the start of this kharif season.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &amp;ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&amp;rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.&lt;br /&gt;
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The regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada account for nearly 65% of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s total cotton yield. Parts of North Maharashtra and Khandesh also grow cotton. Of the state&amp;rsquo;s 13.6 million farmers, nearly 4.5 million grow cotton, as per the state&amp;rsquo;s agriculture census. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;In Gujarat elections, BJP won 23 seats in cotton cultivation areas, while the Congress took 30&lt;br /&gt;
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra is worried about the electoral reversals the party suffered in rural Gujarat, especially the cotton-growing parts. Results of the Gujarat assembly elections announced on Monday showed the Congress made significant gains in the Saurashtra-Kutch region and north Gujarat where cotton and groundnut are the main cash crops.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission&amp;mdash;a task force formed to solve Vidarbha&amp;rsquo;s agrarian crisis&amp;mdash; and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&amp;rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.&lt;br /&gt;
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But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &amp;ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&amp;rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.&lt;br /&gt;
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Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission&amp;mdash;a task force formed to solve Vidarbha&amp;rsquo;s agrarian crisis&amp;mdash; and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&amp;rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Gujarat is India&amp;rsquo;s top cotton producing state, accounting for nearly 25% of the national yield. According to the estimates of the cotton industry and the state government, the state is likely to produce 50.50 million quintals of cotton in the 2017 kharif season. Cotton is grown over 2.7 million hectares in Gujarat. Though Maharashtra has larger acreage under cotton&amp;mdash;normally 3.8 million hectares but 4.2 million hectares this year&amp;mdash;it has lower productivity and was estimated to produce nearly 40 million quintals at the start of this kharif season.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &amp;ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&amp;rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada account for nearly 65% of Maharashtra&amp;rsquo;s total cotton yield. Parts of North Maharashtra and Khandesh also grow cotton. Of the state&amp;rsquo;s 13.6 million farmers, nearly 4.5 million grow cotton, as per the state&amp;rsquo;s agriculture census. &lt;br /&gt;
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                <div align="justify">-Livemint.com<br /><br /><em>In Gujarat elections, BJP won 23 seats in cotton cultivation areas, while the Congress took 30<br /></em><br />The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra is worried about the electoral reversals the party suffered in rural Gujarat, especially the cotton-growing parts. Results of the Gujarat assembly elections announced on Monday showed the Congress made significant gains in the Saurashtra-Kutch region and north Gujarat where cotton and groundnut are the main cash crops.<br /><br />In the belt that accounts for 54 assembly constituencies, the BJP won only 23 seats, 12 fewer than in 2012, while the Congress took 30 seats, 14 more than in 2012. And across the state, the BJP won only 55 of the 127 rural and semi-urban seats as against 68 by the Congress.<br /><br />Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission&mdash;a task force formed to solve Vidarbha&rsquo;s agrarian crisis&mdash; and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat.<br /><br />&ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.<br /><br />A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple.<br /><br />&ldquo;The scale of distress was apparently bigger and more serious than we imagined. What is worrying is that the cotton growers in Maharashtra are facing exactly the same problems as their counterparts in Gujarat&mdash;a low remunerative price and a widespread attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton. The bonus of Rs500 does not seem to have helped much in Gujarat and that means the distress level among cotton growers in Maharashtra, who have not been given such bonus, could be higher,&rdquo; said the minister requesting anonymity.<br /><br />Gujarat is India&rsquo;s top cotton producing state, accounting for nearly 25% of the national yield. According to the estimates of the cotton industry and the state government, the state is likely to produce 50.50 million quintals of cotton in the 2017 kharif season. Cotton is grown over 2.7 million hectares in Gujarat. Though Maharashtra has larger acreage under cotton&mdash;normally 3.8 million hectares but 4.2 million hectares this year&mdash;it has lower productivity and was estimated to produce nearly 40 million quintals at the start of this kharif season.<br /><br />But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.<br /><br />The regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada account for nearly 65% of Maharashtra&rsquo;s total cotton yield. Parts of North Maharashtra and Khandesh also grow cotton. Of the state&rsquo;s 13.6 million farmers, nearly 4.5 million grow cotton, as per the state&rsquo;s agriculture census. <br /><br />Please <a href="http://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/1vIBBY5VWMZuojE93UYlfN/Poll-setback-in-Gujarats-cotton-belt-worries-Maharashtra-BJ.html" title="http://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/1vIBBY5VWMZuojE93UYlfN/Poll-setback-in-Gujarats-cotton-belt-worries-Maharashtra-BJ.html">click here</a> to read more. <br /></div>               </font>
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<em>In Gujarat elections, BJP won 23 seats in cotton cultivation areas, while the Congress took 30<br />
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra is worried about the electoral reversals the party suffered in rural Gujarat, especially the cotton-growing parts. Results of the Gujarat assembly elections announced on Monday showed the Congress made significant gains in the Saurashtra-Kutch region and north Gujarat where cotton and groundnut are the main cash crops.<br />
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In the belt that accounts for 54 assembly constituencies, the BJP won only 23 seats, 12 fewer than in 2012, while the Congress took 30 seats, 14 more than in 2012. And across the state, the BJP won only 55 of the 127 rural and semi-urban seats as against 68 by the Congress.<br />
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Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission&mdash;a task force formed to solve Vidarbha&rsquo;s agrarian crisis&mdash; and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat.<br />
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&ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.<br />
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A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple.<br />
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&ldquo;The scale of distress was apparently bigger and more serious than we imagined. What is worrying is that the cotton growers in Maharashtra are facing exactly the same problems as their counterparts in Gujarat&mdash;a low remunerative price and a widespread attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton. The bonus of Rs500 does not seem to have helped much in Gujarat and that means the distress level among cotton growers in Maharashtra, who have not been given such bonus, could be higher,&rdquo; said the minister requesting anonymity.<br />
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Gujarat is India&rsquo;s top cotton producing state, accounting for nearly 25% of the national yield. According to the estimates of the cotton industry and the state government, the state is likely to produce 50.50 million quintals of cotton in the 2017 kharif season. Cotton is grown over 2.7 million hectares in Gujarat. Though Maharashtra has larger acreage under cotton&mdash;normally 3.8 million hectares but 4.2 million hectares this year&mdash;it has lower productivity and was estimated to produce nearly 40 million quintals at the start of this kharif season.<br />
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But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.<br />
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The regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada account for nearly 65% of Maharashtra&rsquo;s total cotton yield. Parts of North Maharashtra and Khandesh also grow cotton. Of the state&rsquo;s 13.6 million farmers, nearly 4.5 million grow cotton, as per the state&rsquo;s agriculture census. <br />
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<em>In Gujarat elections, BJP won 23 seats in cotton cultivation areas, while the Congress took 30<br />
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra is worried about the electoral reversals the party suffered in rural Gujarat, especially the cotton-growing parts. Results of the Gujarat assembly elections announced on Monday showed the Congress made significant gains in the Saurashtra-Kutch region and north Gujarat where cotton and groundnut are the main cash crops.<br />
<br />
In the belt that accounts for 54 assembly constituencies, the BJP won only 23 seats, 12 fewer than in 2012, while the Congress took 30 seats, 14 more than in 2012. And across the state, the BJP won only 55 of the 127 rural and semi-urban seats as against 68 by the Congress.<br />
<br />
Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission&mdash;a task force formed to solve Vidarbha&rsquo;s agrarian crisis&mdash; and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat.<br />
<br />
&ldquo;The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,&rdquo; Tiwari told Mint.<br />
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A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple.<br />
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&ldquo;The scale of distress was apparently bigger and more serious than we imagined. What is worrying is that the cotton growers in Maharashtra are facing exactly the same problems as their counterparts in Gujarat&mdash;a low remunerative price and a widespread attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton. The bonus of Rs500 does not seem to have helped much in Gujarat and that means the distress level among cotton growers in Maharashtra, who have not been given such bonus, could be higher,&rdquo; said the minister requesting anonymity.<br />
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Gujarat is India&rsquo;s top cotton producing state, accounting for nearly 25% of the national yield. According to the estimates of the cotton industry and the state government, the state is likely to produce 50.50 million quintals of cotton in the 2017 kharif season. Cotton is grown over 2.7 million hectares in Gujarat. Though Maharashtra has larger acreage under cotton&mdash;normally 3.8 million hectares but 4.2 million hectares this year&mdash;it has lower productivity and was estimated to produce nearly 40 million quintals at the start of this kharif season.<br />
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But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. &ldquo;The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,&rdquo; said a senior agriculture ministry official.<br />
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The regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada account for nearly 65% of Maharashtra&rsquo;s total cotton yield. Parts of North Maharashtra and Khandesh also grow cotton. Of the state&rsquo;s 13.6 million farmers, nearly 4.5 million grow cotton, as per the state&rsquo;s agriculture census. <br />
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Poll setback in Gujarat's cotton belt worries Maharashtra BJP -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil

-Livemint.com In Gujarat elections, BJP won 23 seats in cotton cultivation areas, while the Congress took 30 The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra is worried about the electoral reversals the party suffered in rural Gujarat, especially the cotton-growing parts. Results of the Gujarat assembly elections announced on Monday showed the Congress made significant gains in the Saurashtra-Kutch region and north Gujarat where cotton and groundnut are the main cash crops. In the belt that accounts for 54 assembly constituencies, the BJP won only 23 seats, 12 fewer than in 2012, while the Congress took 30 seats, 14 more than in 2012. And across the state, the BJP won only 55 of the 127 rural and semi-urban seats as against 68 by the Congress. Kishore Tiwari, chairman of the Maharashtra government-appointed Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swawalambi Mission—a task force formed to solve Vidarbha’s agrarian crisis— and Vidarbha-based farm activist, said the Maharashtra government should learn from the setback in rural Gujarat. “The results in cotton-growing parts of Gujarat should be a matter of concern for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP-led government in Maharashtra. Apart from the low remunerative price for cotton and the severe spell of pink bollworm attack on the crop that has caused damages worth Rs10,000 crore to cotton growers in Maharashtra, the government also needs to think about providing timely access to institutional credit, high cost of production, and bureaucratic bottlenecks that cause delays between the programmes and their delivery before the BJP suffers a similar political setback here as well,” Tiwari told Mint. A BJP minister in Maharashtra, who campaigned for the party in rural Gujarat including parts of Saurashtra-Kutch region, said the Congress had gained despite the BJP government in Gujarat announcing in October a bonus of Rs500 per quintal for cotton over and above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs4,020 per quintal for the small staple variety, Rs4,270 for the medium staple, and Rs4,320 for the long staple. “The scale of distress was apparently bigger and more serious than we imagined. What is worrying is that the cotton growers in Maharashtra are facing exactly the same problems as their counterparts in Gujarat—a low remunerative price and a widespread attack of pink bollworm on Bt cotton. The bonus of Rs500 does not seem to have helped much in Gujarat and that means the distress level among cotton growers in Maharashtra, who have not been given such bonus, could be higher,” said the minister requesting anonymity. Gujarat is India’s top cotton producing state, accounting for nearly 25% of the national yield. According to the estimates of the cotton industry and the state government, the state is likely to produce 50.50 million quintals of cotton in the 2017 kharif season. Cotton is grown over 2.7 million hectares in Gujarat. Though Maharashtra has larger acreage under cotton—normally 3.8 million hectares but 4.2 million hectares this year—it has lower productivity and was estimated to produce nearly 40 million quintals at the start of this kharif season. But activists and even agriculture ministry officials in Maharashtra now say the pink bollworm attack has damaged nearly 40% of the estimated crop. “The damage in some parts like Vidarbha is more than 50% but it averages out to around 40% across all cotton growing parts of the state,” said a senior agriculture ministry official. The regions of Vidarbha and Marathwada account for nearly 65% of Maharashtra’s total cotton yield. Parts of North Maharashtra and Khandesh also grow cotton. Of the state’s 13.6 million farmers, nearly 4.5 million grow cotton, as per the state’s agriculture census. Please click here to read more.