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India Alarming Decline in Bt Cotton Yield - Indian Agriculture

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India Alarming Decline in Bt Cotton Yield - Indian Agriculture

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. Its time for India to adopt world standards in cotton productivity. All stakeholders must share best practices to boost farmer income


The 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 the 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.


  • India rank 2nd in the world in agriculture production.
  • India’s world rank in services and industry sector is 9th and 5th respectively.
  • Indian agricultural production has increased from 87 USD bn to 459 USD bn in the past 15 years (12% annual growth).
  • Globally India ranks 9th for the agricultural exports.
  • 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.




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