COIMBATORE: The penalty and legal action against firms selling substandard cotton seeds and fertilisers will be reframed, ...

The success story of Xinjiang cotton reflects China's broader push to elevate its agricultural value chain — from traditional ...

Smallholder farmers in central and southern India who planted genetically modified (GM) cotton achieve larger yields, greater profits and a higher living standard than those who grow conventional ...

The new study: ‘Towards more sustainable cotton farming in India’, conducted by Wageningen University with research between 2019 and 2022, shows how cotton farmers who implemented Better Cotton ...

India’s organic cotton cultivation yet again figures in a global controversy. This time, it is over the Organic Cotton Market Report 2022, ... -India’s nodal agency for organic farming ...

This comes in the backdrop of cotton area, production and productivity registering a declining cotton production trend of 31.6 million bales in 2023-24 from 33.6 million bales in 2022-23.

The Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA) has published a new life cycle assessment study outlining the environmental benefits of organic cotton farming in India.. Conducted by climate consultancy ...

Better Cotton said it will work closely with two in-country Programme Partners, Cotton Connect India and WWF India, who together support more than 125,000 Better Cotton licensed farmers across ...

India’s cotton imports fell, exports grew and as of 2015-16 India is expected to have overtaken China as the biggest cotton producer it the world. The side effects ...

Bt hybrids perform better under irrigation, but 66% of cotton in India is cultivated in rain fed areas, where yields depend on the timing and quantity of variable monsoon rains.

In 2016, WWF, one of India's leading tiger conservationists, decided to place these cotton farmers, whose fields often border forests, the territory of the tigers, at the heart of its strategy to ...