Rythu Sangam Plans Dharnas, Citing CCI Indifference to Cotton Farmers' Plight

Farmers in Telangana are upset because the government's cotton buying agency, CCI, isn't buying their cotton fairly.

CCI has strict rules about how wet the cotton can be, how much they'll buy from each farmer, and requires farmers to use a special app that many don't know how to use.

Because of these rules, farmers can't sell all their cotton, and they're forced to sell it to private buyers for much less money than it's worth.

The farmers are organizing protests to ask the government to change these rules, allow wetter cotton, buy more per farmer, and stop making them use the difficult app.

They also want the government to put taxes back on imported cotton to help them sell their own better.

If these issues aren't fixed, they might lose a lot of money.