How power shaped the ‘success story’ of genetically modified cotton in Burkina Faso

Many GM crops in Africa are not the domain of big agri-business companies. This doesn’t mean vested interests won’t still shape …

Spinning industry seeks government help

Industry association recently published advertisements in newspapers, seeking govt attention

Creasefree cotton

A blunder undone

Cotton debate

India's green light to Bt cotton opens up a whole new can of worms

Improving water security in Maharashtra’s cotton-growing villages

Cotton is an important fibre crop in Maharashtra, with more than four million farmers engaged in cotton farming

Here is help

तीन दशक के शोध के बाद भारत में उगेगा रंगीन कपास

सिंधु घाटी सभ्यता में मुख्य तौर पर गहरा भूरा और भूरा से खाकी, सफेद और हरे रंग के कपास का इस्तेमाल किया जाता था

Cotton imposters

Companies like Welspun India may be passing off ordinary cotton fabrics as Egyptian cotton ones and there is no foolproof method yet of detecting …

Desi cotton to the rescue

CICR banks on traditional solutions to Vidarbha’s cotton crisis

Genocide of farmers

Film >> Cotton for my shroud • by Nandan Saxena and Kavita Bahl • Produced by Top Quark Films • 81.30 min HDV Documentary 2011

बीटी कॉटन को लेकर फिर से कठघरे में बीज कंपनियां

 वैज्ञानिकों द्वारा किए गए अध्‍ययन में बीज कंपनियों द्वारा बीटी कॉटन के रिफ्यूज के लिए किसानों को दिए जा रहे बीज सही नहीं पाए ...

Buttermilk-based bioformulation helps in cotton disease control

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University researchers found that a plant growth promoting rhizo bacteria can be used to fight Tobacco Streak Virus in cotton

Revoked!

The cancellation of a US firm's rights on a method to genetically engineer cotton has brought weaknesses in India's patent system into focus

Colouring cotton

COTTON SUCCESS

Yarns of problems

Cotton-eating monsters lay low the farmers

Cotton farmers in northwest India were taken by surprise when, despite a pesticide blitzkrieg, the American bollworm devastated half their crops. …

Natural resplendence

Scientists in Dharwad, Karnataka, develop coloured cotton, organically

Technology needs stewardship

Keshav Raj Kranthi, an entomologist by training, is director of the Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur. He has developed an extensive …

COTTONING ON THE PAKISTAN'S WELSHING

UGANDA

Crop failure

Cotton wrecked

GM bollworms on the anvil?

Insects have been modified to destroy own species