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2009-09-08 | permalink
Farmers in rain-deficit Gujarat (India) opt for non-Bt cotton
When India is moving toward 100 per cent Bt cotton regime, some winds of change has been seen in Gujarat, the leading cotton producer in the country. Due to the deficient monsoon, farmers have taken to cotton over rain-fed crops like groundnut, to the extent that the area under cotton cultivation has increased by nearly two lakh hectares. Significantly, it’s conventional (non-Bt) cotton varieties and not the Bt cotton variety that has caught the attention of the farmers this season.
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2009-09-08 | permalink
Farmers in rain-deficit Gujarat (India) opt for non-Bt cotton
When India is moving toward 100 per cent Bt cotton regime, some winds of change has been seen in Gujarat, the leading cotton producer in the country. Due to the deficient monsoon, farmers have taken to cotton over rain-fed crops like groundnut, to the extent that the area under cotton cultivation has increased by nearly two lakh hectares. Significantly, it’s conventional (non-Bt) cotton varieties and not the Bt cotton variety that has caught the attention of the farmers this season.
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