Advantages and disadvantages of production of bt cotton
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Disadvantages. High cost of Bt cotton seeds as compared to non Bt cotton seeds. Effectiveness up to 120 days, after that the toxin producing efficiency of the Bt gene drastically reduces. Ineffective against sucking pests like jassids, aphids, whitefly etc.
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Advantages. Bt cotton has several advantages over non-Bt cotton. ... Reduction in insecticide use in the cultivation of Bt cotton in which bollworms are major pests. Potential reduction in the cost of cultivation (depending on seed cost versus insecticide costs).
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Disadvantages. High cost of Bt cotton seeds as compared to non Bt cotton seeds. Effectiveness up to 120 days, after that the toxin producing efficiency of the Bt gene drastically reduces. Ineffective against sucking pests like jassids, aphids, whitefly etc.
Advantage
Advantages. Bt cotton has several advantages over non-Bt cotton. ... Reduction in insecticide use in the cultivation of Bt cotton in which bollworms are major pests. Potential reduction in the cost of cultivation (depending on seed cost versus insecticide costs).
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Advantages: Cotton is typically a very very big environmentally burdensome crop to grow, because in order to get decent yields you have to apply pesticides something like 8-10 times or so in a single season. This takes a tractor, which takes fuel, and the farmer's time and money. It poisons the groundwater and is a health hazard to humans and other organisms.
Bt cotton successfully repels the boll weevil larvae, one of the principal predators of cotton, and all other larval insects trying to take a bite out of the cotton plant, eliminating the necessity for pesticide applications.
Disadvantages:
1. We don't eat cotton or cotton products (cotton seed meal, while high in protein, is toxic); therefore, there are no potential human health disadvantages.
2. Ecologically it may be problematic, as we still don't have a feel for how inserting this Bt gene into the cotton gene pool is going to affect weedy relatives, or the diversity of our cotton crop.
3. Also, it affects all larval insects, so if there are any beneficial caterpillars in the area they will be killed too.
Let this be a warning to all cute moths and butterflies! ;)
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Bt cotton successfully repels the boll weevil larvae, one of the principal predators of cotton, and all other larval insects trying to take a bite out of the cotton plant, eliminating the necessity for pesticide applications.
Disadvantages:
1. We don't eat cotton or cotton products (cotton seed meal, while high in protein, is toxic); therefore, there are no potential human health disadvantages.
2. Ecologically it may be problematic, as we still don't have a feel for how inserting this Bt gene into the cotton gene pool is going to affect weedy relatives, or the diversity of our cotton crop.
3. Also, it affects all larval insects, so if there are any beneficial caterpillars in the area they will be killed too.
Let this be a warning to all cute moths and butterflies! ;)
hope it will help you
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