{"id":413914,"date":"2010-03-10T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18884161.post-8910975651106176214"},"modified":"2010-03-17T18:40:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:40:47","slug":"reduction-in-insecticides-used-in-indian-cotton-plus-yield-increases-and-greater-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413914","title":{"rendered":"Reduction in insecticides used in Indian cotton plus yield increases, and greater profitability"},"content":{"rendered":"

India’s Bt Cotton Crop Area Rises to 8 Million Hectares; Yields Up 31 Per Cent: Minister<\/p>\n

– Domain B, March 10 2010 http:\/\/www.domain-b.com\/<\/wbr>industry\/biotechnology\/index.<\/wbr>html<\/a><\/p>\n

The area under Bt cotton in the country has increased from 29,000 hectares in 2002-03 to an anticipated 8 million hectares in 2009-10. Bt cotton has also helped increase crop yields by 31 per cent, the government said today.<\/p>\n

The average yield of Bt cotton has increased from 300 kg per hectare in 2001-02 to 560 kg per hectare in 2007-08, K V Thomas, minister of state for agriculture, consumer affairs, food and public distribution, informed the Lok Sabha in a written reply today.<\/p>\n

Cultivation of Bt cotton has resulted in a 31 per cent increase in yields, 39 per cent reduction in pesticide usage and more than 80 per cent increase in profitability of farmers, the minister said, quoting figures from International Service for Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications 2009 (ISAAA 2009) report.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/a>The Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), Nagpur has been conducting detailed studies at the state level in collaboration with the state agricultural universities of the nine major cotton growing states, he said in his reply.<\/p>\n

Information so far collected indicates that yields have increased in these cotton growing states with the introduction of Bt cotton, he said, adding that the bollworm menace has also significantly reduced all over the country. He also said there has been a reduction in market share of insecticides used in cotton.<\/span><\/p>\n

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India’s Bt Cotton Crop Area Rises to 8 Million Hectares; Yields Up 31 Per Cent: Minister – Domain B, March 10 2010 http:\/\/www.domain-b.com\/industry\/biotechnology\/index.html The area under Bt cotton in the country has increased from 29,000 hectares in 2002-03 to an anticipated 8 million hectares in 2009-10. Bt cotton has also helped increase crop yields by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}