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Farmers hope cotton purchase to go up after Makar SankrantiCCI's share in cotton procurement is about 50% in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, slightly more than 50% in Maharashtra while it is about 10%...- Hybrid seed industry growth may drop due to scanty rainsScanty rains in cotton-growing regions of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu have washed away hopes of hybrid seeds growth in the country.
- Plunging profits drive cotton farmers to demand doubling of support priceProfits for cotton farmers across the country are likely to slide from 100% in the previous season to just about 15% this time round.
- Govt jubilant on cotton procurement success, courtesy high support priceThe government’s mammoth cotton procurement scheme, spread over four-and-a-half months, ended on March 15, rising a huge 1,285%.
- It’s boom time for Maharashtra cotton growersIn Maharashtra’s large cotton constituency, farmers are reaping a cash harvest, thanks to the highest ever minimum support price (MSP) of t...
- Suicides on, but cotton body talks record profitCotton farmers in Vidarbha may continue to suffer. But the state-owned cotton marketing federation hopes to make a record profit of Rs 50 c...
- Not again! Cotton prices near MSP on textile recessionCotton, it is said, is a predictably unpredictable commodity. Prices, which at the commencement of the current season (October 15- November...
- Govt dragging feet on cotton purchase, allege farmersThe Maharashtra government may have practically pulled out of the loss-making monopoly cotton purchase scheme, but its policy on cotton lea...
- Govt rules out change in cotton policy, populist interventionThe government of Maharashtra is not unduly worried over projections of a record cotton yield this year as it has put in place a policy tha...
- Cotton fields at home put Deshmukh govt in a bindPopulist promises made in the ’04 assembly election manifesto have come to haunt the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra.
- Cotton's cool, players are buyingThe Maharashtra government’s plan to start cotton procurement from November 15 for the ‘06-07 season has set the stage for competition betw...
- Cotton cushion for farmersProjections of a record cotton yield in the ’06-07 season could mitigate the intensity of Maharashtra’s agrarian crisis, according to exper...
- Farmers cotton on to GM codeA large number of cotton growers have now moved to genetically modified (GM) cotton, popularly known as Bt cotton.
- Hybrid cotton set to reap bumper resultsCotton belts are likely to tell a different story this year. With most farmers shifting to hybrid cotton varieties, experts say the state i...
- Cotton procurement unlikely next seasonThe Maharashtra government has no plans to intervene in the cotton market to mitigate the agrarian crisis in Vidarbha, Mantralaya officials...
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