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COTTON YIELD COMPARISON
India’s big cotton bet: Can Rs 5,659 cr revive the sector's global leadership?India’s Rs 5,659-crore Mission for Cotton Productivity aims to tackle falling yields, poor seed quality, and rising import dependence throu...- CCI to identify districts in each state for cotton productivity trials: Textiles MinisterUnion Minister Giriraj Singh announced efforts to improve cotton productivity by involving CCI in trials across various districts. The gove...
- We can oil palm it offOil palm cultivation in India has the potential to significantly boost farm incomes while reducing the country's edible oil import bill. Wi...
- MSP & pollution: Two sides of same coinThere is a direct correlation between why north India becomes a gas chamber every winter and the scheme of paddy and wheat procurement unde...
- How science can fix a different oil imbalance in IndiaFood bought from overseas soaks up dollars, which no developing economy wants to part with right now. But that isn’t all. In the current ge...
- Origo Commodities' estimate suggests a drop in kharif productionAs per the latest estimate of Origo Commodities, India's total Kharif crop production for the crop year 2022-23 is estimated at 640.42 mill...
- Higher mandi prices for kharif crop, likely bumper rabi harvest spell gains for farmers: Crisil ResearchIn crop year 2018-19, farm profits jumped 26% on-year over a low base of the preceding year (2017-18), which had seen per-hectare profits d...
- Some Indian farmers are turning moon-gazersAn unofficial estimate by the Biodynamic Association of India (BDAI) says about one lakh farmers in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and...
- I think the overall growth should be around 20% this year: Nandkishor Kagliwal, Chairman, Nath Bio-GenesAny comparison which is based on quarter to quarter sales, in our type of business is misleading, said Kagliwal.
- How Monsanto found an able adversary in the Sangh parivaarMonsanto has been hit with price control in India. How did the MNC, known worldwide for its lobbying prowess, end up with grief in India? E...
- Only 12% deficit in monsoon rainfall: Why is the picture of rural economy still uncertain?While the Modi government talks up overall economic sentiment, the picture for the rural economy is far more uncertain.
- Late monsoon and its impact: Weak rainy season makes farmers stare at lower output, hard choicesSeveral farmers are planting shorter-duration varieties of wheat, or other crops that can be harvested by November, when the next cropping ...
- Punjab, Haryana eye 278 lakh tonnes wheat outputPunjab, major producer of wheat, is targeting more than 150 lakh tonnes (LT) of wheat production for the current season as against 165.91 L...
- Congress versus BJP: Who has fared better in the last five yearsET compares 12 states ruled by these two parties for the last five years on 10 socio-economic parameters.
- Rapeseed-mustard production to touch 71 lakh tonnesThe overall area under rape-mustard has increased by 1.85 lakh hectares to 67.17 lakh hectares.
- Seeds: The one attractive link in the agricultural chain, growing at 20% a yearSeed is the only part of the agricultural chain that is growing at 20% a year and is insulated from both government subsidies and weather v...
- Impact of weak monsoon on KharifThe likelihood of weak monsoon rains, crucial for kharif output in India, is causing great worry to farmers, media and policymakers.
- Bad weather to trim cotton output by 10%The estimated cotton production for the year ending September '09 has been revised down 9.9% at 290 lakh bales as against 322 lakh bales es...
- High-yielding Bt cotton seeds set to be costlierThe All-India Crop Biotechnology Association, a representative of 15 seed companies based in New Delhi, believes that Bollgard II cotton se...
- Contract farming yet to reach state cotton fieldsThe Maharashtra government’s plan to rope in corporates and textile industry for contract farming in cotton, it seems, is going nowhere.
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