Cotton Corp plans contract farming in Vidarbha

Cotton Corporation of India has started contract farming in the Vidarbha region to help growers there to tide over the problem of regular crop failures, said Subhash Grover,MD.

"The textile ministry has floated the idea of contract farming in cotton in the Vidarbha region to urge large corporate houses and textile mill owners to engage in the activity," Grover said. CCI and textile mills from South India have already started contract farming in cotton on 25,000 hectares in the Vidharba region.

"Through contract farming, the textile ministry wants to demonstrate that usage of good seeds, pesticides and cotton types can help farmers to achieve good yield," Grover said.Under frontline demonstration scheme, part of Mini-Mission project on cotton by the agriculture ministry, CCI has been granted Rs 11 crore to engage in contract farming across the country.