Overview
- Over 300 ginning mills began an indefinite statewide strike on Monday, halting procurement in market yards and escalating pressure on the Cotton Corporation of India.
- The Telangana government asked CCI chairman and managing director Lalit Kumar Gupta to visit the state on Tuesday to address farmer and millers’ concerns.
- Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao pressed for revising the 7 quintal per acre cap to 12 quintals and flagged the 12% moisture limit as unrealistic after prolonged rains.
- CCI has bought only about 1.12–1.18 lakh tonnes so far against a projected 28.29 lakh tonnes, leaving many farmers to sell at ₹6,000–₹7,000 per quintal instead of the ₹8,110 MSP.
- Opposition BRS leaders K. T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao demanded a high-level state delegation to Delhi and highlighted unpaid paddy bills of roughly ₹1,200 crore plus ₹200 crore in pending bonus.