Africa agriculture trade monitor 2023
The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including
Cotton
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Suicide of farmers in Maharashtra- Background Papers
<p>This paper has three parts: </p> <ul> <li> The first, an analysis of 192 news reports in a Marathi daily, Deshonnati, cites 320 cases of farmers’ suicides in Maharashtra reported during
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Bt: Acquiring shades of grey
Bt Cotton: A Painful Episode, Need For Thoughtful Policy
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Bt for Better Times?
Good weather, illegal Bt seeds raise Punjab s sagging cotton yields
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Cotton stats
Malwa: This is Punjab's cotton country. Yields here were some of the highest in India till 1992-93, when the region reported its first major infestatin of the American bollworm. Punjab accounted for
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India s farmers don t like GM crops
National level meeting of farmer bodies rails about Bt cotton
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The impact of organic cotton farming on the livelihoods of smallholders
Cotton farming provides livelihood for many million smallholders in developing countries. Over the last decades, many cotton farmers have been facing declining cotton yields despite increasing application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Increased input costs and decreasing marginal returns have lead many cotton farmers into indebtedness.
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Here is help
Bt Cotton
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In short
gm cotton ban: On May 3, 2005, the Union government's Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) barred commercial cultivation of three varieties of genetically modified (GM) cotton hybrids in
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Natural resplendence
Scientists in Dharwad, Karnataka, develop coloured cotton, organically
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Bytes
using cotton gin residue: US researchers have found the waste generated when cotton is ginned (seeds separa ted from fibre) can yield valuable products. They have developed manufacturing