Dividend Freeze Scare Tells

therefore welcome But there Is little substance in the popular belief that decontrol would help increase production. Few will be inclined to share the Government's plea that the support prices needed to be raised to ensure the growers a lair remunerative price for their produce. The Government, and all those who continue to plea for high, er support prices, need the stern reminder that even the existing floor prices are higher than the world prices of comparable cottons. The new support price for standard variety at Rs 279 a quintal is higher than the ceiling price for this variety until 1961-62. and it is only Rs 13 a quintal lower than the ceiling prices for the 1964-65 season.