India has the largest amount of land for cotton cultivation . Yet, india is only the second largest producer of cotton in the world. Can you think of the reasons for it?
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just because india sell it cotton as raw material but other countries make products
Answer: China, states the cotton fiscal of 2006-2007. Statistics also show that by October-end, the annual cotton farmers' suicide-mark has crossed 1,000. But the why behind suicides--the non-increase of cotton procurement price--has still not been answered. And the new production boom coupled with burgeoning existing stocks, could crash the domestic cotton price and deepen the agrarian crisis further, while benefiting the textile industry only.
The paradox The cotton revolution brought about by the so-called pirated Bt cotton was developed in Gujarat. Down To Earth's investigations have earlier found that Navbharat-151, the miracle seeds, being widely grown across the northern and western states in India.The banned variety of Navbharat-151 and variants thereof has benefited the Gujarat farmers' income by Rs 5,000 crore, says J V Shah, former managing director, Gujarat State Seeds Corporation.
But such developments have happened where there is enough irrigation and where non-fake pirated Bt is available, for example, Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana. With 99 per cent of agricultural land irrigated in Punjab and Haryana and over 70 per cent irrigation in Gujarat, the states also have the right mix of conditions. Bt cotton requires at least three times more water than non-Bt cotton and the price of pirated and non-fake Bt is at least one-fourth, or even less than that of legal Bt cotton.
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