The Committee on Cotton Production and Consumption (COCPC), headed by the Union Textile Commissioner, has recommended to the ...

This was the first year when Indian cotton imports of 30 lakh bales surpassed exports of 17 lakh bales whereas India, on average, exported 120 lakh bales merely 12 years ago ...

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) will soon undertake the second round of field trials for pink bollworm-resistant (PBW) genetically modified (GM) cotton in the forthcoming kharif seasons ...

Profits from cotton have reduced with the passage time ... because last season there was negligible infestation of white fly, pink bollworm, in comparison to the previous years.

Confined field trials of BT cotton at five sites in Zimbabwe show positive results giving more scope for the country to scale ...

Each spring, millions of Mexican free-tailed bats fly from under the Congress Avenue Bridge, but they weren't always welcome ...

IPL Biologicals innovates in agriculture with new manufacturing unit in Gujarat and plans for global expansion.

Cotton brokers, traders ... Moreover, pest infestations, particularly pink bollworm and whitefly, have further worsened the situation, with limited access to genetically improved seeds compounding ...

Bt cotton, which was introduced as a pest-resistant (pink bollworm) crop, is now being attacked by the same pink bollworms. To get rid of them, farmers are spraying pesticides, which has become an ...