Kalahandi sends out first cotton shipment to Bangladesh
In a first, cotton from Kalahandi district is being exported to Bangladesh by Cotton Corporation of India. The first cotton rake was loaded at Junagarh on Wednesday.
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BHAWANIPATNA: In a first, cotton from Kalahandi district is being exported to Bangladesh by Cotton Corporation of India. The first cotton rake was loaded at Junagarh on Wednesday. A consignment of 6500 bales of cotton weighing around 2471 tonnes will be shipped to Benapol station in Bangladesh by train.
Kalahandi grows State’s finest cotton. It also is the biggest cotton growing district where over 60,575 hectare across Bhawanipatna, Kesinga, Golamunda, Narla, Karlamunda and Lanjigarh blocks are under cultivation for cotton.
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Cotton farmers in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh are availing the benefits of an open market by receiving a larger sum for their produce than the per quintal rate set by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI),
the Hans Indiareports.
The CCI has fixed a price of Rs 5,825 for each quintal of quality cotton. Apparently, the cotton sowing area in the district had reduced as farmers gradually switched to sowing chili crops to get a better price in the market.
Moreover, heavy rainfalls in September and October damaged the cotton crops in the southern state. There was lesser yield of the cash crop as a result and hence the supply for quality cotton was limited in the market.