Import Duty cut on Cotton will fuel agrarian crisis in Maharashtra-Kishore Tiwari
Import Duty cut on Cotton will fuel agrarian crisis in Maharashtra-Kishore Tiwari Dated-29th August 2025 The Indian government has extended the deadline for waiving import duty on cotton till December 31. This will have a serious negative impact on 9 million cotton farmers, as this will result in a sharp decline in the domestic market price of cotton, which will cause huge financial losses to farmers as they will have to bear a loss of up to Rs2,000 per quintal. Import Duty cut on cotton will fuel agrarian crisis in Maharashtra, said Kishor Tiwari, former chairman of the Maharashtra government's Farmers' Mission, who has been raising the issue of suicides of cotton farmers at the global level for the past four decades . In the last 20 years, over 30,500 farmers committed suicides in the cotton growing belt of Western Vidarbha and a record 1,630 farmers have committed suicide till 15th august this year due to continuous crop failure, increase in cultivation costs, decline in in...