Trade officials from Brazil and the United States reached a place-holder accord that delays until 2012 the imposition of trade sanctions in a protracted dispute over Washington
Greenpeace, the non-governmental organisation, has claimed that farmers get more income if they cultivate organic cotton instead of Bt cotton.
The NGO, which conducted a survey in three top cotton growing districts of Warangal, Karimnagar and Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh, said that the net income of organic cotton farmers is Rs 6,000 an acre, while Bt cotton farmers earned only Rs 2,000.
Food subsidy bill to soar way above targeted Rs 55, 578 cr Pulses MSP increase unlikely to push sowing as govt not major purchaser Cotton quality, sales checks in place
Our Bureau NEW DELHI
Guntur, June 1: The cotton growing area is expected to increase by at least 10 per cent during this season because farmers are getting Rs 3,200 per quintal while the Cotton Corporation of India has fixed the minimum support price at Rs 3,000 per quintal.
Gandhinagar: Close on the heels of a high-level Cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Narendra Modi, the state government on Wednesday warned of a widescale farmers
After a drastic drop in the yield of wheat this rabi season, the kharif crop appears to be heading in a similar direction. Sharp rise in temperature during March led to shrivelling up of wheat grain and reduction in yields by about 20 per cent. And now, a rapid rise in heat is threatening both long and short staple cotton.
Chandigarh: Extreme heat conditions in the northern region have caused leaves of cotton crops in Punjab to burn, which has given rise to fears of a low crop yield at the maturing stage.
Defusing a long-running trade dispute over American cotton subsidies, the United States and Brazil agreed to begin negotiating a compromise deal that could prevent the implementation of Brazilian trade sanctions on a wide range of US goods and intellectual property.
