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Cotton production in Gujarat not likely to be affected despite delayed rains

Despite delayed monsoon and sluggish sowing progress, cotton production in Gujarat is not likely to wilt this Kharif season, thanks to improved yields. Driven by good rains in the growing regions, the yield is likely to be higher. This would result in a stable crop size, it is gathered. In Gujarat, India’s largest cotton producing state, acreage under the fibre crop has touched a three-year low at 23 lakh hectares which is about 19 per cent lower than the last three year’s average of 28.21 lakh hectares (lh).

The state accounts for nearly a third of India’s cotton production. Cotton acreage in the country, which stood at around 118 lh for 2015-16 as per the provisional figures of the Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), is likely to be lower this year. But a good rainfall in the growing regions of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana, apart from Gujarat, is likely to improve the crop situation for 2016-17.

 
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