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    Improved production technology in cotton farming can significantly increase yields. Some key techniques mentioned in the document include: 1) High density planting which involves planting cotton more densely to fill empty space between plants and increase yields per unit area. 2) Plastic mulching which covers rows with polyethylene film to increase soil temperature, conserve water, control weeds and salinity, improving yield and quality by 10-30%. Early mulching before sowing further benefits yield. 3) Micro-irrigation methods like drip and sprinkler irrigation which conserve water compared to flood irrigation while maintaining high yields in cotton.

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    Improved production technology in cotton farming can significantly increase yields. Some key techniques mentioned in the document include: 1) High density planting which involves planting cotton more densely to fill empty space between plants and increase yields per unit area. 2) Plastic mulching which covers rows with polyethylene film to increase soil temperature, conserve water, control weeds and salinity, improving yield and quality by 10-30%. Early mulching before sowing further benefits yield. 3) Micro-irrigation methods like drip and sprinkler irrigation which conserve water compared to flood irrigation while maintaining high yields in cotton.

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    Improved production technology in cotton farming can significantly increase yields. Some key techniques mentioned in the document include: 1) High density planting which involves planting cotton more densely to fill empty space between plants and increase yields per unit area. 2) Plastic mulching which covers rows with polyethylene film to increase soil temperature, conserve water, control weeds and salinity, improving yield and quality by 10-30%. Early mulching before sowing further benefits yield. 3) Micro-irrigation methods like drip and sprinkler irrigation which conserve water compared to flood irrigation while maintaining high yields in cotton.

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    Improved production technology in cotton farming can significantly increase yields. Some key techniques mentioned in the document include: 1) High density planting which involves planting cotton more densely to fill empty space between plants and increase yields per unit area. 2) Plastic mulching which covers rows with polyethylene film to increase soil temperature, conserve water, control weeds and salinity, improving yield and quality by 10-30%. Early mulching before sowing further benefits yield. 3) Micro-irrigation methods like drip and sprinkler irrigation which conserve water compared to flood irrigation while maintaining high yields in cotton.

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    Improved production technology in cotton

    Cotton
    Cotton is one of the most important fibre and
    cash crop of India
    It plays a dominant role in the industrial and
    agricultural economy of the country.
    It provides the basic raw material (cotton fibre)
    to cotton textile industry.
    Cotton in India provides direct livelihood to 6
    million farmers and about 40 -50 million people
    are employed in cotton trade and its processing.
    Improved production technology
    ACID-DELINTING OF COTTON SEEDS
    Transplanting
    Transplanting of cotton seedlings is done
    during failure of seed establishment. It may be
    due to soil condition or failure of rainfall and
    also it can be done during late season crop to
    yield sooner.
    Intercropping
     cotton intercropped with other crops, one
    paired row of cotton is alternated with three
    rows of intercrop and the total population of
    cotton crop is maintained at the same level as
    in the case of pure crop.
    For intercropping with Greengram / Soybean,
    complete the sowing and irrigation 20 days
    prior to cotton sowing on one side of the ridge.
    Cotton intercropped with soybean Cotton intercropped with blackgram
    Plant topping

    Removal of growth tips on the main stem by


    hand (topping) inhibits apical dominance and
    vegetative growth, allowing more nutrients to be
    partitioned to reproductive organs, leading to
    more squares, flowers, bolls and lint yield.
    High plant density technique

     HDP in simple terms means planting cotton more densely or


    closely than what is being practiced.
     The reason is that when farmers were growing non Bt cotton, the
    b/w plant and b/w row spacing used to be more. Because of
    flaring and shedding up of squares due to bollworm damage
    triggering the plant to put up excessive vegetative growth than
    the normal growth attained when all the developed fruiting
    bodies are intact.
     Farmers also had to spray very intensively to control bollworms
    during post blooming crop stage; wider plant spacing facilitated
    un hindered movement in the field while spraying.
     Farmers adopted the Bt technology and improved management
    practices but continued to plant at the same spacings as was
    done with non Bt.
     With the restricted vegetative growth in Bt cotton there
    appeared to be some excessive vacant space b/w the plants
    than what was actually required.
     Through HDP it was tried to fill this vacant space by planting
    more plants to increase the yields with the logic that more
    number (optimum) of plants would bear more number of
    bolls/unit area; which might translates into more yield/unit
    area than what is currently being harvested.
    Impact of genotypes and high density planting on yield and
    yield attributes and quality parameter in hirsutum cotton

    (Parihar et al.,2018)
    Plastic mulching with machine
    Plastic mulching - row covering with
    polyethylene film, because plastic mulching
    increases soil temperature, water conservation,
    salinity control in the root zone and weed
    control, thereby increasing yield and quality by
    10–30%.
     Plastic film mulching can also be applied before sowing.
    Pre-sowing coverage is particularly beneficial to cotton
    planting in saline fields.
     Large evaporation usually occurs in naked land before
    sowing in spring, which would cause significant
    accumulation of salts in the surface layer of saline soils.
     We found that row covering with plastic film 30 days
    before sowing (early mulching) better improved stand
    establishment (38.7%), biomass (26.5%), lint yield
    (19.0%) and earliness (14.7%) of cotton than conventional
    post-sowing coverage (Dong et al., 2009).
    Drip irrigation under plastic film
    MICRO IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT IN
    COTTON
    Sprinkler irrigation in cotton
    Bt cotton

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