Indian Central Cotton Committee. Report on Investigations into the Finance and Marketing of Cultivators’ Cotton in Khandesh (1925-26 & 1927-28)

(2) The season was an early one and about half of the crop and in some villages most of the crop was picked by the beginning of November. [...] The percentage of kapas sold in the second period to kapas picked up to that date is on the whole surprisingly small and the number of cultivators who held up the whole of their kapas until December or January is suprisingly large. [...] A number of sales of the cultvators' whole crop are recorded as late as the end of January or the begining of February. [...] In the next period ending about November 25th 47 out of 17o cultvators in Mamurabad and 79 out of 93 in Kandari sold all or most of their kapas the percentage of the total crop so sold in the 2 villages being 34 and 79. [...] No detailed comparison is possible of the rates obtained from village sales and sales in the market but the indications are that in the case of Tamawadi and Kandari the rates obtained in the villages compared pretty well with market rates.