The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) will set up 11 purchase centres in the Guntur district to purchase cotton from the farmers at the minimum support price (MSP), civil supplies minister P Pulla Rao said. To ensure farmers get the MSP according to the price set by the government for their crop, Rao said in a review meeting recently held with officials.

The agriculture department officials of Andhra Pradesh are expecting 4.66 lakh tonnes of cotton out of 1.82 lakh hectares of farm land in Guntur district.

The marketing department commissioner, S Anand Kumar said, “The department will open 43 cotton purchase centres and install CCTV cameras to curb the menace of middlemen.”

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