hyderabad
Minister for Agriculture, Tummala Nageswara Rao, has requested the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) to continue cotton procurement in Telangana as the farmers still have a huge quantity of the produce left with them.
Farmers have cultivated the cotton crop in 44.92 lakh acres during the 2023-24 kharif season and the production is estimated at 25.02 lakh tonnes. The CCI had opened 285 cotton purchase centres with the help of the State government and it had purchased 12.31 lakh tonnes cotton worth ₹8,569.13 crore from over 5.36 lakh farmers at minimum support price. Private traders had purchased another 4.97 lakh tonnes of cotton from farmers.