Chief Minister to decide on more incentives to ginning mills, says Minister

‘350 new mills have come up after formation of Telangana’

The plea of ginning mills in the State for more incentives would be taken to the notice of the Chief Minister, Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy stated here on Monday. The ginning mills are already getting power subsidy. At a meeting held with the representatives of the ginning mills association the Minister stated that cotton was expected to be cultivated in about 75 lakh acres during the kharif (vanakalam) season this year and the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) had itself certified the quality of cotton produced in the State. Although Maharashtra was top in the extent of cultivation, Telangana was ahead in terms of production of the fibre crop, he noted. Stating that the government was committed to encourage ginning mills in the wake of increase in the extent of the crop the Minister said more incentives would be given to them after taking the matter to Chief Minster’s notice. He stated that the number of ginning mills was less than 100 before formation of Telangana, 350 new mills had come up during the last seven years and another 30 were under construction.