Cotton farmers in Tamil Nadu are unable to benefit from the Minimum Support Price (MSP) operations of the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) as cotton cultivation is mainly in districts that do not have cotton processing facilities closeby.
A cotton farmer at Tiruvarur, Ravichandran, said the CCI, which is mandated to procure cotton whenever prices fall below the MSP, has not procured even a single kg of cotton in Tamil Nadu since 2021. “This betrayal has left cotton farmers so disheartened that many of us have resolved not to grow cotton again unless these market-related issues are resolved,” he said.
