Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates CITI-CDRA Golden Jubilee Celebrations

13 April 2022, Mumbai:

Vice President calls for improving cotton yield and productivity and stresses the priority of farmer incomes.

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The Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu today called upon all stakeholders to make concerted efforts to improve cotton yield and productivity in India to enhance farmers’ incomes.

Expressing his concern over the low yield of Indian cotton compared to other major cotton growers in the world, Shri Naidu said that steps must be taken to guide the farmers through better research and by adopting best practices.

The Vice President was inaugurating the CITI-CDRA Golden Jubilee Celebrations from Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi today.

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Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) is a leading industry chamber of the textile sector in India and the Cotton Development and Research Association (CDRA) is the extension arm of CITI, undertaking various seed development and extension activities in the cotton sector.

Naidu expressed his concern that despite being the largest cotton producer (23%) in the world and having the highest area under cotton cultivation (39% of world area), the yield per hectare in India remained at a low of 460 kg lint per hectare when compared to the world average of 800 kg lint per hectare.

To address this, he called for improving the planting density, taking up mechanization of the cotton harvest, and giving a thrust to agronomy research.

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CREDITS: PBI (The news article has not been edited by DFU Publications staff).