India's National Cotton Productivity Mission, which will focus on crop diversification, new seed varieties, and mechanization, aims to double yields across major cotton-growing states and improve ...

Until the 1990s, India lagged behind Pakistan in cotton production. However, today, ... We need to reassess the situation and chart the right path for our future. Currently, ...

India cotton farmers demand higher rates amid wider apparel price pressures. Cotton farmers in India are holding street protests to press their demand for better compensation, while the country’s ...

For a millennium, India was the world's centre for cotton production, and it exported this wonder fabric around the world — to South East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and beyond.

Bt cotton is everywhere. On the scale of India, the Asian giant has the world's largest area of cultivated cotton, some 14 million hectares, 95% of which is made up of genetically modified seeds.