Cotton Support Price

Farmers protest: The protesting farmers from Punjab have rejected the Centre's proposal to buy three types of pulses, maize and cotton at the old MSP and their march to Delhi will continue today

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha - an umbrella organisation of farmer unions not directly linked to those leading this round of protests - has rejected a five-year contract to buy three types of pulses, maize, and cotton at the old MSP.

It was an electoral promise that touched millions of farmers - an increase of Minimum Support Price by 50%. And many of them were convinced: Narendra Modi was their clear choice for being India's Prime Minister.

First the skies dried up, and then it rained heavily, too heavily for Ramesh Khamankar's cotton crop. In January, the cotton farmer from Maharashtra's Vidarbha region poisoned himself to death.

India Ratings & Research has revised its cotton outlook to negative for 2015-16 due to a decline in domestic yarn production, an unlikely recovery in cotton exports and a fall in domestic cotton prices below minimum support prices (MSP).

Even as the Gujarat government announced the successful conduct of the 7th Vibrant Gujarat global business summit, several farmers organisations and activists have criticised the police crackdown on farmers who were planning protest demonstrations on the inaugural day of the summit on Sunday.

In 72 hours, 12 farmers from Vidarbha region in Maharashtra committed suicide due to crop losses, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samittee chief Kishore Tiwari announced today.

The cotton farmers of Gujarat have decided to continue their agitation demanding better support price for their crop even as the already under pressure Anandiben Patel government tries to pacify them. These cotton farmers have also threatened to disrupt the forthcoming Vibrant Gujarat summit.

The state unit of the AAP will launch campaigns with the theme of "remember poll promises", seeking to increase minimum support price of cotton crops, at a time when the Gujarat farmers' agitation is at its peak, the party said on Friday.

21-year-old Arvind Nagani of Dharai village in Gujarat's Saurashtra had taken some days off from his studies to help his father sell off their cotton produce at a marketing yard 15 km away from his village.

A farmer hailing from Surendranagar District of Gujarat's Saurashtra region allegedly committed suicide by immolating himself at a cotton marketing yard in adjoining Jasdan taluka on Wednesday, reportedly after not getting a good price for his cotton produce.

Domestic production of cotton in India this year may be at an all-time high of over 40 million bales. However, farmers who grow the crop in Telangana are in deep distress due to high input costs and low remunerative prices. In Warangal district, for instance, where 50 per cent of cultivated area grows cotton, erratic rainfall has reduced output wit...

A sharp drop in cotton prices overseas and a weak monsoon have raised India's imports in recent weeks, which could lift shipments more than 25 per cent above the official forecast for this season ending September and help support cotton futures.

Big or small, cotton cultivators are still reeling under debt and though the support price for cotton is at Rs 4000 per quintal, farmers say it will barely cover their operating costs.

India has raised its support price for various agri products to protect the agri sector from price fluctuations.

Farmers protest: The protesting farmers from Punjab have rejected the Centre's proposal to buy three types of pulses, maize and cotton at the old MSP and their march to Delhi will continue today

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha - an umbrella organisation of farmer unions not directly linked to those leading this round of protests - has rejected a five-year contract to buy three types of pulses, maize, and cotton at the old MSP.

It was an electoral promise that touched millions of farmers - an increase of Minimum Support Price by 50%. And many of them were convinced: Narendra Modi was their clear choice for being India's Prime Minister.

First the skies dried up, and then it rained heavily, too heavily for Ramesh Khamankar's cotton crop. In January, the cotton farmer from Maharashtra's Vidarbha region poisoned himself to death.

India Ratings & Research has revised its cotton outlook to negative for 2015-16 due to a decline in domestic yarn production, an unlikely recovery in cotton exports and a fall in domestic cotton prices below minimum support prices (MSP).

Even as the Gujarat government announced the successful conduct of the 7th Vibrant Gujarat global business summit, several farmers organisations and activists have criticised the police crackdown on farmers who were planning protest demonstrations on the inaugural day of the summit on Sunday.

In 72 hours, 12 farmers from Vidarbha region in Maharashtra committed suicide due to crop losses, Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samittee chief Kishore Tiwari announced today.

The cotton farmers of Gujarat have decided to continue their agitation demanding better support price for their crop even as the already under pressure Anandiben Patel government tries to pacify them. These cotton farmers have also threatened to disrupt the forthcoming Vibrant Gujarat summit.

The state unit of the AAP will launch campaigns with the theme of "remember poll promises", seeking to increase minimum support price of cotton crops, at a time when the Gujarat farmers' agitation is at its peak, the party said on Friday.

21-year-old Arvind Nagani of Dharai village in Gujarat's Saurashtra had taken some days off from his studies to help his father sell off their cotton produce at a marketing yard 15 km away from his village.

A farmer hailing from Surendranagar District of Gujarat's Saurashtra region allegedly committed suicide by immolating himself at a cotton marketing yard in adjoining Jasdan taluka on Wednesday, reportedly after not getting a good price for his cotton produce.

Domestic production of cotton in India this year may be at an all-time high of over 40 million bales. However, farmers who grow the crop in Telangana are in deep distress due to high input costs and low remunerative prices. In Warangal district, for instance, where 50 per cent of cultivated area grows cotton, erratic rainfall has reduced output wit...

A sharp drop in cotton prices overseas and a weak monsoon have raised India's imports in recent weeks, which could lift shipments more than 25 per cent above the official forecast for this season ending September and help support cotton futures.

Big or small, cotton cultivators are still reeling under debt and though the support price for cotton is at Rs 4000 per quintal, farmers say it will barely cover their operating costs.

India has raised its support price for various agri products to protect the agri sector from price fluctuations.