The lure of corn for farmers struggling with a weak cotton market may be strong - and cotton prices are likely to react to any shift. cotton exports plummeted over the past year as China and India boosted their cotton production. has cotton traders on edge ahead of the Agriculture Department's spring plantings report, due out Friday. He expects the USDA to report cotton planting down to 11 million acres. Kerr said he's betting on an even larger decline in cotton acreage - and higher prices...

Making an attempt to clear a lot of doubts and enable people to develop more confidence in crop biotechnology, Manjunath in his book said that coincidental with its steep increased adoption, the average yield of cotton in India increased from 308 kg per hectare in 2001-02 to 450 kg per hectare in 2005-06 with most of the increase in yield of up to 50 per cent or more, attributed to BT cotton. Despite the continued opposition by "a small section", Indian farmers, who have been haunted by...

A number of measures have been taken by the Government to protect and safeguard the interests of farmers, like regulation of markets, grading of agricultural produce, cooperative marketing etc. The importance of sound agricultural marketing policies for ensuring fair returns to the farmers can hardly be over-emphasized. It, therefore, becomes necessary on the part of regulatory agencies to ensure remunerative prices to the farmers for the sale of their produce, to boost up their efforts...

Its not often you see a lot of harvest equipment going full speed ahead in late February, particularly when the fields full of nothing but desiccated 15-foot stalks. In between shooting photos, I answered questions for those who stopped to ask about all the activity (Brent was driving one of the boll buggies shadowing the harvester and didnt have a lot of time for PR work) And while much of agricultures emphasis today is on ethanol production, Brasher and the MSU engineers are running a...

The agrarian crisis continues unabated in Vidarbha region with six more farmers having committed suicide in the last 24 hours. The names of the victims were given as: Namdeo Bhimrao Bone of Tarnoli, Venkati Reddy Yeltiwar of Lingti village (both Yavatmal), Shankar Jhalte of Sogoda, Bhivaji Jadhav, Dattapur (both Buldhana), Madhukar Bhelkar, Chincholi and Bhandudas Bondre of Munhadevi (both Amravati district) The names of the victims were given as: Namdeo Bhimrao Bone of Tarnoli, Venkati...

The rebate rate on textile products, covering the cotton textiles and chemical fibre sectors, might fall from 11 to nine percent, said the source, while the rate on garments would be reduced from 13 to nine percent and on chemical fibre products from nine to five percent. The rebate rate on textile products, covering the cotton textiles and chemical fibre sectors, might fall from 11 to nine percent, said the source, while the rate on garments would be reduced from 13 to nine percent and on...