however this practice is very recent in effect since and has so far been mainly focussed on fruit and vegetable products other per hectare subsidies are set for groups of commodities such as grains vegetables and melons fruits and berries and feed crops and therefore are not included in the scts these developments were linked to the difficulties of ginneries to attract credit for forwardcontracting cotton growers this was due to the local banking crisis and also to the regulations introduced that limited the ways ginneries could attract finance