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Indian Scenario of Cotton Hybrid Technology, Reseach Projects & Recommendations

5. The AICRP is having a long-term
relation with the textile industry. The
Industry demand for fibre quality is
dynamic and its requirement chang-
es based on the demand from the
International market.
Dr. C.D. Mayee, added that if the gen-
otype is having any special character
AICRP would possibly give a special
notification to the government request-
ing that the genotype is released for
that particular trait and the prices
should be based on the trait. If the spe-
Breeding Panel Discussion
cial trait is GOT that would benefit the
farmer. He also added that the lint yield In his remarks during the Session on Breeding Trials, Dr. B. M. Khadi, stressed
can also be taken into account for the the following points:
release of the entry. He said that the - As of now, the per capita cloth is 34 square meter and the demand is
representatives from bio-pesticide com- expected to be 47 square meter per capita. This cloth demand can be
panies should be invited for this ses- met by improving the production of cotton using the technology of HDPS
sion from the next group meeting. He especially with Bt varieties.
further emphasised that the concept
- Species diversification is very important for keeping the equilibrium of
of Zones needs to be reoriented based
cotton cultivation.
on the cotton productivity.
- Arboreum can be tried in HDPS and mechanical harvesting in arboreum
Dr. Y.G. Prasad in his deliberation told
will be yielding much dividends.
that GOT will be evaluated as a spe-
cial trait. He also said that there should - Gossypium australe has to be inducted in pre-breeding programme at
be directed pre-breeding activity for CICR, Nagpur centre.
improvement of particular traits and the - AICRP on Cotton has to be acknowledged by all the centres who are
mechanism for sharing these materi- using the data obtained from AICRP testing in their research publications
als will be further worked out. He ex- and annual reports without fail.
pressed the need of evaluating the
hybrids suited for HDPS separately as
clubbing the data along with the other
hybrids will be misleading.

Dr. R.K. Singh, ADG (CC) shared his
views on data recording for the AICRP
trials and suggests that online data
entry module to be developed for ef-
fective and timely submission of data
for compilation.
Details of Research Projects

Technology for Organic
Nutrient Management of Cotton
India is the largest producer of organic
cotton in the world. India’s contribu-
Audience in the Breeding Panel Discussion
tion to global organic cotton production
is 51 per cent. Evolving organic nutri- strategy is proposed by integrating dif- cotton production in different do-
ent management strategy is very much ferent sources of organic nutrients. mains.
required to support our organic produc-
Objectives of this research project are:
tion system. Market prices of organic - To assess soil organic carbon sta-
manures are costly. Hence evolving low - To find out low cost nutrient man- tus, nutrient availability and eco-
cost organic nutrient management agement techniques for organic nomic return of selected organic

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