TS FARMERS HOPE TO GET MORE FROM COTTON YIELD

Cotton is set to fetch a good price, more than the MSP of

`,5825, as national and international markets are faced with a serious shortage of cotton bales, cotton cake and related byproducts.

Private traders offered above

`9,000 per quintal cotton during July-August this year in Warangal district. According to rough estimates, cotton crop is cultivated on 4,11,578 acres and Soya in 70,096 acres in Adilabad district.

Farmers are expecting a good cotton crop now since plants grew to the expected level.

It is expected that cotton price may touch `7,000 per quintal this time. It is said there were no stocks of cotton bales, cotton cake and lint and other of its byproducts in international markets including India and China. News is making rounds in markets that private cotton traders would offer good price this time.

Private cotton traders may purchase cotton at higher prices without giving much scope for the Cotton Corporation of India to enter into the market to purchase cotton based on the MSP fixed last year.

Former Adilabad market committee chairman Sanjeev Reddy said private cotton traders may offer good price -more than the MSP -- this time in view of the huge shortage of cotton bales in the market.

Private cotton traders are waiting for the arrival of cotton to markets by November.

There would be a good price for the Soya crop, too, in the coming days. Private traders are offering more than `7,000 per quintal of soya right now against an MSP of `3,880.

Sangepu Borranna, district president of Rythu Swarajya Vedika, said there would be better price for cotton this Kharif since there are no stocks in markets in India and China; and even Pakistan imported cotton from India last year.