As consumer demand for organic cotton soars, so does skepticism over the sustainability of the sector. The response must not be to retreat from organic cotton, but to invest more in supporting farmers ...

Learn how to test soil early, prepare well and plant cotton into the right conditions for uniform stands and lasting yield ...

Explore the pros and cons of various cover crop varieties to know what to pick for your cotton field this winter.

Doing away with fabricated reports and misleading campaigns, growers and agriculturalists have said conducting research and development (R&D) can take the cotton sector out of its existing crisis and ...

Many cotton growers face a critical decision over the next few weeks: whether to switch some acreage to wheat, soybeans or other crops because of the significantly higher market prices for those ...

Planting cotton early in the planting window will allow growers to escape peak stink bug pressure and thereby possibly eliminate or minimally reduce the number of sprays required to manage them, ...

Preparations for early cotton sowing are currently under way in Punjab, focusing on optimizing production efficiency and minimizing costs. Early sowing offers multiple advantages, including reduced ...

Cotton growers can produce more cotton if they plant early, but not without irrigation. That's the finding of an article published in the September-October 2010 Agronomy Journal, a publication of the ...

Punjab's cotton cultivation season for 2025-26 has begun with encouraging signs, particularly in southern parts of the province where early sowing continues gaining momentum despite regional ...

MUMBAI, May 26 (Reuters) - Cotton farmers in the western state of Gujarat are preparing to start timely sowing from this week as India hopes to witness another year of record production, government ...

Pakistan’s cotton sector has faced a significant downturn in recent years, with the previous season witnessing an extraordinary decline in production, reducing output to just 5.5 million bales. This ...

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the country's major cotton producer, has entered its cotton sowing period this year, local agricultural authorities said. Major cotton-producing ...