State targets 33.2 lakh MT of cotton this year: Minister

The State Government has targeted procurement of 33.2 lakh metric tonnes of cotton during the current year.This is almost double the previous marketing year’s (2020-21) yield of 17.89 lakh metric tonn

The State Government has targeted procurement of 33.2 lakh metric tonnes of cotton during the current year.

This is almost double the previous marketing year’s (2020-21) yield of 17.89 lakh metric tonnes, which was procured from 5.49 lakh farmers with an estimated value of ₹10,167 crore, Agriculture Minister S. Niranjan Reddy told the Legislative Assembly.

Replying to a query during the Question Hour on Friday, he said the State was ranked number one in the country in terms of quality of cotton and second in the area under cultivation. The government had notified 376 ginning mills across the State as cotton procurement centres in addition to providing online cotton software procurement system for minimum support price operations for the year 2021-22.