Overview
- CCI chairman Lalit Kumar Gupta met ginners in Hyderabad and assured a resolution of procurement issues within about 10 days.
- Roughly 260 ginning mills plan to resume operations on November 19, with additional units expected to follow after a two‑day shutdown that froze market yard activity.
- Farmers are still selling cotton at ₹5,000–₹7,000 per quintal to private traders against the ₹8,110 MSP, with CCI purchases stuck near 1.12–1.18 lakh tonnes versus a projected 28.29 lakh tonnes for the season.
- Millers and growers cite new norms—L1/L2 grading of mills, a seven‑quintal‑per‑acre cap, strict 8–12% moisture limits and mandatory Kapas Kisan app/Aadhaar steps—as the drivers of the breakdown.
- BRS leaders staged protests across key districts and called for central intervention, as the State Agriculture Minister sought revised norms citing average yields of about 11.74 quintals per acre.