NAGPUR: Textile industry and private players exporting quality organic cotton have shown growing interest in contract farming to bail out Vidarbha farmers. To make matters worse, the pay made by the state government under the monopoly cotton scheme is decreasing and open market rates of cotton have seen a decline. As a result over 73,000 hectares of land in western Vidarbha's most distressed districts will see contract farming this year giving a handsome deal to farmers. During the past...

Organic cotton, currently, makes up a minuscule share in the total cotton production. However, industry experts believe that there is a huge potential for increasing the organic cotton production. Rising enquiries from international brands are likely to more than double the global production of organic cotton in the next two years. He further added that the country should grow more of organic cotton and be the first choice as supplier for the growing markets. If textiles firms want to go...

Cotton is by far Alabama's largest agricultural export, but like most of the state's agriculture, it is being decimated by the drought. Dry parts of the mid-South and south east have led to a drop of 1.3 million bales in the nation's cotton production from last month, according to projections re leased Thursday by the U. While the drought is damaging Alaba ma's cotton crops, other cotton produc ing states are getting too much rain. Meanwhile, parts of Oklahoma and Texas, the nation's...

In response to that support, four cotton-producing countries in West and Central Africa Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Chad have requested that the Doha round of negotiations on trade liberalization contain financial compensation for WCA countries for as long as those Western subsidies remain in place. The "Cotton Problem" in West and Central Africa: The Case for Domestic Reforms Home. In response to that support, four cotton-producing countries in West and Central Africa Benin, Burkina...

The competition for labour between cotton and food crops is certainly a constraint to the expansion of cotton acreages as farmers usually give priority to food crops. This will require the total overhaul of the industry from cotton farming to the finished product in the form of fabrics and clothes. The promotion of cotton production was initiated during the sixties and has shown a rather chaotic evolution during the next decades, with various changes of government policies. Ghana has...

Dryland cotton hopes high Wednesday, 18 July 2007 Slightly improved moisture and price profiles, coupled with farming systems refinements, have prompted renewed interest in dryland cotton. CSD extension and development agronomist, Rob Eveleigh, says recent Bureau of Meteorology analysis suggests cotton growers can be more optimistic about future rainfall prospects, with computer models predicting a La Ni a forming during winter. Projections of slightly lower world production and an...