PMO urged to stop Distress Sale Cotton & Soybean-VNSSM

PMO urged to stop Distress Sale Cotton & Soybean-VNSSM 
Dated -30 0ctober 2017

Maharashtra Agrarian Crisis management special task force chairman Kishor Tiwari  today urged PMO or urgent intervention to address distress sale main cash crops cotton & soybean which is being sold below minimum support price (MSP) as central agencies cotton corporation of india  (CCI) and NAFED   both failed arrest the prices moreover their intervention was  too poor to stabilize the market prices of cotton & soybean which has record 7 million hectares area under cultivation in farm suicide prone region of maharashtra   which is adding fuel in on going agrarian crisis .
Besides proper functional  market intervention of CCI and NAFED , Kishor Tiwari  has asked PMO for strong exim policy changes of banning imported cotton lint and palm oil and put soybean cake DOC in MCDEX and NCDEX  open trade beside giving export subsidies to cotton and soybean traders in the country .
Earlier Maharashtra farm task force has welcomed  Gujrat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani decision for  special  relief to cotton growers in Gujarat by announcing  a bonus of Rs.500 per quintal over and above the minimum support price of Rs.4320.and after the additional bonus, the effective procurement price of cotton will touch Rs.4,820/quintal.

Now we are asking our Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to follow the footstep his counterpart as cotton growers in his state are going through the very bad phase of time because Cotton acreage in the State stood at 50 lakh hectares, about 15 per cent higher  than the 35 lakh hectare normal acreage in the State due to massive bollworm attack and pesticide poisoning in farm suicide affected dryland region of vidarbha and marathwada  ,Maharashtra State government along with the Cotton Corporation of India will carry out the procurement process.Maharashtra is the second  largest producer of cotton in the country, followed by  Telangana , VNSSM Chief Kishor Tiwari  informed .

Due to recent attack of pest of  cotton farmers are under huge losses task force has moved special request to the government’s to follow the gujarat govt.decision of bonus over and above the MSP has been promised  by the PM to cotton farmers of region in 2014 parliamentary election ,Tiwari added.

VNSSM  chief has laso urged Maharashtra Chief Minister to arrange to start all procurement centres of CCI and marketing federation  as hostile babus are delaying it intentionally and distress sale below  MSP is reported in cotton growing  region of vidarbha and marathwada adding fuel to on going agrarian crisis.
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