Related Keywords: cotton procurement, farmers grievance meeting, mobile procurement centres
Tiruchirapalli farmers concerned over the price being offered by traders which is lower than the expenses incurred by farmers have urged the district administration to introduce mobile procurement centres for the procurement of cotton, to enable farmers to get reasonable price for their produce.
Chelladurai, district secretary of the Tamil Nadu Vivasayigal Sangam, said that at the farmers’ grievances day meeting here that besides the poor yield of the rain-fed crops because of monsoon failure, farmers were worried at the poor price being offered by traders for their produce.
