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India. Alarming Decline in Bt Cotton Yield

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Bt cotton yield in India.

The Bt cotton yield has been in free fall for over a decade in India. What do experts say about this?

Here is an eye-opener. 

Centre for Environment and Agriculture

Centre for Environment and Agriculture (CENTEGRO) is a Mumbai-based not-for-profit organization active in producing policy advocacy papers focused on improving India’s farm economy.

The continuous negative portrayal of Indian agriculture has led to many myths and misconceptions among people and policymakers as well. Empirical evidence, however, shows an entirely different reality about Indian agriculture. This needs to be brought out to create an adequate level of awareness about the inherent strengths and achievements of Indian agriculture.

CENTEGRO, therefore, felt the need to develop a data-based website that shares facts about Indian agriculture and farm economy. This site contains extensive data from public sources together with opinions from a few experts in the field of agriculture and our own independent research.

Pesticides are sprayed diluted with water. The water content would be as high as 99% in the pesticide spray when applied to the crops.

Accidental short exposures to such pesticide spray drift would not deliver lethal dose to the body of the sprayman.

Of course, it is always recommended that such exposures are avoided.

All substances used as pesticides, whether organic, bio or synthetic undergo the same toxicity, safety and efficacy assessments before allowed for commercial introduction.

The crop protection industry in fact offers a variety of pesticide products – organic, bio and synthetic – to farmers enabling a diverse and inclusive approach to pest control.



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