Farmers in the state have gone in for cultivation on a much bigger scale this year. The area under cultivation of the white gold has gone up by 52,000 hectares this year.
Data available from the Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture Department shows that against 2.51 lakh hectare area under cotton last year, the crop had been sown on 3.03 lakh hectares. An assured market at the minimum support price MSP announced by the government has led to the new confidence among farmers in the cotton crop.
Last year, almost 80 per cent of the cotton crop was procured by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) at the MSP of Rs 5,825 a quintal. The remaining was bought by private traders at rates varying between Rs 5,900- Rs 6,000 a quintal.