Date: 2025-09-02Category: Not ApplicableState: Union GovernmentCountry: India
Union Minister of Textiles Shri Giriraj Singh launches CCI’s farmer-centric Kapas Kisan app to streamline Minimum Support Price in (MSP) cotton procurements
**Summary:**
On September 2, 2025, the Union Minister of Textiles, Shri Giriraj Singh, launched the "Kapas Kisan" mobile application developed by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI). This farmer-centric app aims to streamline the procurement of cotton under the Minimum Support Price (MSP) scheme. The Kapas Kisan app enables farmers to self-register, book procurement slots, and track payments, thereby enhancing transparency, convenience, and efficiency in the cotton procurement process. Key features include secure online registration, digital scheduling to minimize wait times at procurement centers, real-time updates on quality assessment and payment processing, and a multilingual user interface. The initiative supports the Digital India vision by reducing paperwork, saving time at procurement centers, and empowering farmers to choose convenient time slots for selling their cotton, ultimately safeguarding them from distress sales through assured MSP procurement.
Key Entities Referenced
Shri Giriraj Singh: Union Minister of Textiles
Kapas Kisan app: Mobile application developed by the Cotton Corporation of India to facilitate seamless procurement of cotton from Farmers under the Minimum Support Price scheme.
Minimum Support Price: A scheme to protect cotton farmers against distress sales through assured procurement.
Cotton Corporation of India: Organization that developed the Kapas Kisan app under the Ministry of Textiles.
Ministry of Textiles: The government ministry overseeing the Cotton Corporation of India and the Minimum Support Price scheme.
Digital India: A vision to ensure timely, transparent and fair MSP operations
Delhi: Location of Press Information Bureau (PIB) where the release was posted.
Ministry of Textiles
Union Minister of Textiles Shri Giriraj Singh launches
CCI’s farmer-centric Kapas Kisan app to streamline
Minimum Support Price in (MSP) cotton
procurements
New digital initiative advances Digital India, ensures
fair, transparent and efficient cotton procurements
under MSP: Shri Giriraj Singh
Kapas Kisan app empowers farmers with self-
registration, slot booking and payment tracking
Posted On: 02 SEP 2025 5:31PM by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of Textiles Shri Giriraj Singh today launched Kapas Kisan app, a new mobile application
developed by the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), under the Ministry of Textiles, to facilitate seamless
procurement of cotton from Farmers under the Minimum Support Price scheme. The New mobile App
empowers farmers with self-registration, slot booking and payment tracking. This app provides facility of
payment tracking by farmers - bringing greater transparency, convenience and speed to the cotton
procurement process.
Speaking on the occasion, the Union Minister Shri Giriraj singh said that this farmer-first mobile app marks a
major step in enhancing ease in selling of cotton by our cotton growers. By digitizing key steps - right from
registration to payment tracking -we are ensuring timely, transparent and fair MSP operations. It reinforcesour commitment to safeguard farmers from any distress sales and to accelerate the vision of Digital India.”
Key features of the App includes that the farmers can securely register themselves for selling cotton under
MSP, digital scheduling at designated procurement centres to reduce waiting time and crowding, real-time
status updates on quality assessment, accepted quantities, payment processing and user-friendly interface with
support for multiple Indian languages.
Union minister also mentioned that the app will helps in protecting cotton farmers against any distress sales
through assured MSP procurement, reduces manual paperwork and saves time at procurement centres,
enhances transparency and improves planning by allowing farmers to choose convenient time slots
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MAM/SMP(Release ID: 2163101)