Overview
- Ginning mills entered Day 2 of an indefinite strike, paralysing cotton procurement across Telangana and leaving market yards largely deserted.
- Mill owners are protesting CCI’s L1/L2 categorisation, a 12% moisture cap, mandatory Kapas Kisan app slot booking and a seven‑quintal‑per‑acre purchase limit, which they call unviable.
- Farmers report being forced to sell for ₹5,000–₹7,000 per quintal against the MSP of ₹8,110, while CCI purchases remain very low at roughly 1.12–1.18 lakh tonnes against a projected 28.29 lakh tonnes for the season.
- CCI Chairman and MD Lalit Kumar Gupta arrived in Hyderabad for urgent meetings after a video conference with Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy; Telangana’s agriculture minister pressed to lift the per‑acre cap to 12 quintals citing an average yield of 11.74.
- BRS leaders K. T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao met farmers and backed a November 21 highways blockade, as Andhra Pradesh’s agriculture minister separately reported a positive Centre response and phased reopening there.