Whitefly attacks drive farmers away from Bt cotton in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan
As a result, the area under desi cotton varieties has taken a quantum leap and the acreage is at a decade high, although the overall area under the fibre crop this year has declined 30 per cent in the region, where the kharif planting has ended.
“Desi cotton has been planted on about 72,280 hectares in North India this kharif. Last year, the acreage under desi cotton in the region had barely touched 3,000 hectares,” said KR Kranthi, Director of Nagpur-based Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR). In the last 10 years, it had not exceeded 5,000 hectares, he added................Read more
Source: BusinessLine
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