VJAS demands cotton MSP of Rs.4500/- per quintal to compensate farmers accumulated losses

Excess rain and recent flood damaged standing Bt.cotton crop in record 110 lakhs hector in India :VJAS demands cotton MSP of Rs.4500/- per quintal to compensate farmers accumulated losses of Rs.27,000 crore

Nagpur -1^st September 2010

The shocking news reports that this year for khariff season 2010-11 area under cultivation in India has crossed all records of US ,thanks to US MNc Bt.cotton seed manufacture Monsanto when official figure on national scene crossed 110 lakhs hectors is till being published ,the reports from Andhra,Maharashtra,M.P, Rajasthan and Punjab that record rain and massive floods in these area has damaged most of standing Bt.cotton crop and excessive rain has jumped the cultivation cost to double but expected yield is likely to reduce to 50% resulting more than Rs.27,000 crore huge financial losses to Indian cotton growers hence vidarbha janandolan samiti (VJAS) ,the main advocacy of west vidarbha cotton growers has urged Indian Govt. to ask CACP to raise cotton MSP of Rs.4500/- per quintal to compensate farmers accumulated losses, kishor tiwari of VJAS informed in press release today.

In a letter to Indian Prime Minister,Dr.Manmohan Singh , VJAS has given details of sky rocking cultivation cost which is exposing the truth of the agrarian crisis in the cotton growing area of India, here is that table

110 lakhs hectors Bt.Cotton Sky Rocking Cultivating Expenses

Region	Area	seed	Fertilizer	Pesticide	labor	Fluking ,family labor and interest	Total
vidarbha	28 lakhs hector	1400 crore	1500 crore	1960 crore	1300 crore	5500 crore	27700 Crore
Maharashtra	42 lakhs hector	2100 crore	2200 crore	2940 crore	2840 crore	2100 crore	10200 crore
India	110 lakhs hector	5500 crore	5700 crore	7700 crore	5200 crore	1500 crore	7100 crore

Hence total cultivation expenses in dry land rain fed area for Bt.cotton is more than Rs.25,000 per hector even the yield matches the toll claim of US MNC’s Monsanto then ever too farmers break cost at home is more than Rs.4,00/- per quintal hence due massive flood in china and Pakistan the Indian cotton demand will be higher hence higher MSP will protect the cotton farmer from blood sucking trader community area hence we demand higher MSP for cotton that’s minimum Rs.4,500/- per quintal ,Tiwari added.

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