Cotton farmers staging a sit-in protest on National Highway 44 at Bhoraj village near Adilabad town on Friday.
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ADILABAD
Cotton farmers staged a sit-in on National Highway 44 at Bhoraj village near Adilabad town on Friday, to press for lifting of ‘restrictions’ on the quantity of cotton procurement and relaxing moisture content norms by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI).
The protest was organised under the aegis of the All-Party Coordination Committee, barring the BJP and Congress.
Vehicular movement was disrupted for sometime due to the road blockade on the busy Adilabad-Nagpur stretch of the national highway.
Several farmers joined the stir on their bullock carts in a symbolic protest against the ‘new’ cotton procurement norms in an effort to highlight their ordeal.
They raised slogans against the CCI’s alleged cap on cotton procurement ‘imposing’ a quantity restriction of 7 quintals per acre from each farmer.
They demanded that the cap be immediately lifted and cotton be purchased at 13 quintals per acre that hitherto existed.
The demonstrators displayed a banner that read “Scrap the Kapas Kisan App, Purchase Soybean at 10 quintals per acre and revert to the old system of buying 13 quintals per acre of cotton from each farmer.”
Addressing the demonstration, leaders of various political parties and farmers’ organisations alleged that the new cotton procurement norms aggravated the woes of farmers grappling already with crop losses or low crop yield or high moisture content under the impact of recent spell of heavy rains.
They demanded that both the State and Central governments ensure hassle-free cotton procurement from farmers at minimum support price. Expressing solidarity with the aggrieved farmers, the local leaders of the BRS, CPI, CPI (M), and BSP, among others, took part in the protest.
Published – November 21, 2025 08:20 pm IST
