AP cotton growers taking on slump with BT yield

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Warangal, AP, Nov 9 : the range of 15-16 quintals per acre. “Earlier we used to lose money or barely able to break even due to low yield,” Busari Rajeswararao, who has cultivated BT cotton in 18 acres out of his 25 acres of land.

Meanwhile, the state-owned Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), the nodal agency responsible for price support operations, recently said that due to inadequate rains in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra and high temperature during second fortnight of October, there are reports of moisture stress, which is affecting the growth of cotton plants. CCI said that there are also reports of immature bursting of bolls, which may affect the yield.

“We still hope for a better yield as there three months to we are hoping to carry out atleast three more plucking of crop,” Inge Baburao, a cotton farmer in Sivaginagar village said. With the introduction of Bt cotton seeds, a genetically modified variety developed by US biotechnology company Monsanto, the country has witnessed a bumper crop production since 2004 after a decade of low productivity.