Agriculture Minister demands Centre’s immediate intervention to ensure cotton’s procurement on MSP by CCI

Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh-

Raising voice of the distress of the state's cotton farmers, Punjab Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Gurmeet Singh Khudian sought the Centre Government’s immediate intervention to commence the cotton crop’s procurement by the Cotton Corporation of India's (CCI) in the state at Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rs. 7,710 per quintal as announced by GoI. The CCI’s absence from state mandis, despite the “white gold's” arrival, has left the farmers vulnerable to distress sales to private players at prices below the MSP.

While addressing a press conference here at Punjab Bhawan, on Wednesday evening, S. Gurmeet Singh Khudian painted a grim picture of br

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