Annual Report of the Indian Central Cotton Committee Bombay for the Year Ending 31st August 1932

The Tariff Board's letter and the Committee's reply thereto are given in Appendix V. Arising out of the oral evidence tendered to the Tariff Board by the representatives of the Committee the Committee was further called upon to examine the proposition that the grower of lonstaplt cotton in India was not realizing adequate price for his cotton. [...] This was done in view of the representation of the local mills that they could not get readily their supplies of cotton as according to the practice in the State the mills depend upon the local markets for their requirements of cotton the bulk of which is brought in country carts from outside the State. [...] While discussing the subject of the future policy of the Committee at the twenty-fourth meeting of the full Committee several members dwelt on the necessity of licensing the ginning and pressing factories. [...] The recommendations of the Special Sub-Committee which dealt with the reports on the investigations into the finance of the cotton crop and its marketing were forwarded to the Local Governments concerned and the further steps taken by them during the year to give effect to these recommendations are given below :— BOMBA Y.—The Bill for the standardisation of weights and measures which was under co [...] Raw cotton trade statistics.—Reference was made in last year's report to the recommendation made by the Committee to the Government of India urging the separation of Kathiawar from the Gujerat trade block in the classification of trade blocks adopted for the purposes of raw cotton trade statistics.