Selective lifting irks farmers
Cotton growers are fuming at CCI officials for rejecting 75 per cent of produce
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2014-11-07 05:05 GMT
Khammam: The cotton growers are fuming at the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) officials for rejecting nearly 75 per cent of their produce on the grounds that it is of inferior quality. They staged a protest at the cotton market yard against the CCI not lifting their produce. In the last three days, nearly 90,000 bags reached the cotton market yard in Khammam.
On information, revenue divisional officer Vinay Krishna Reddy rushed to the market yard and asked the CCI officials to lift the crop.CCI officials argued that much of the cotton brought had moisture content over 10 per cent which they can’t buy. G. Sankar Naik, a farmer of Tirumalayapalem, said it was not fair on the part of the CCI to stop lifting cotton citing moisture content. "We want the CCI to buy cotton with high moisture content at a lower price," he said.