INDIA: Need to Improve Cotton Production TN.
With the textile mills in Tamil Nadu consuming nearly 80 lakh bales of cotton annually, the State needs to increase its cotton production from the current five lakh bales a year, according to P.D. Patodia, chairman of the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry. However, despite reduction in acreage the production…
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Considering the demand for acreage from competing crops, there was an inherent constraint in expanding the area under exclusive cotton cultivation. Wastelands should be brought under short and medium-staple cotton growth. For the last two years, the issue of using rice fallow lands from States such as Tamil Nadu, Orissa and West Bengal had been debated. However it had not progressed due to the lack of suitable varieties for cultivation in such lands.
In Addition to one area of concern for the sector was that of a large number of varieties and hybrids being recommended for cultivation in various cotton growing States. Cotton growers in any particular village should be encouraged to grow only one variety. This would bring down the admixture levels.
Source: The Hindu.com
From the Egytex news archive, first published on 9 June 2008. Figures and names are as reported at the time.
