The government’s mammoth cotton procurement scheme, spread over four-and-a-half months, ended on March 15, rising a huge 1,285%.

In Maharashtra’s large cotton constituency, farmers are reaping a cash harvest, thanks to the highest ever minimum support price (MSP) of t...

Cotton farmers in Vidarbha may continue to suffer. But the state-owned cotton marketing federation hopes to make a record profit of Rs 50 c...

Cotton, it is said, is a predictably unpredictable commodity. Prices, which at the commencement of the current season (October 15- November...

The Maharashtra government may have practically pulled out of the loss-making monopoly cotton purchase scheme, but its policy on cotton lea...

The 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...

Populist promises made in the ’04 assembly election manifesto have come to haunt the Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra.

The Maharashtra government’s plan to start cotton procurement from November 15 for the ‘06-07 season has set the stage for competition betw...

Projections of a record cotton yield in the ’06-07 season could mitigate the intensity of Maharashtra’s agrarian crisis, according to exper...

A large number of cotton growers have now moved to genetically modified (GM) cotton, popularly known as Bt cotton.

Cotton belts are likely to tell a different story this year. With most farmers shifting to hybrid cotton varieties, experts say the state i...

The Maharashtra government has no plans to intervene in the cotton market to mitigate the agrarian crisis in Vidarbha, Mantralaya officials...