As part of the tour to study the modern practices in cotton farming including high-density cultivation, a team of elected representatives and officials led by Telangana Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy visited a cotton research centre in Texas in the US on Thursday.
After going round the research centre and interacting with officials there, the Minister said high-density cotton farming was carried out with several benefits such as higher production and less inter-cultivation costs.
After examining the farms there along with legislators R. Ravindra Naik, M. Anand and P. Sudershan Reddy, Managing Director of State Seed Development Corporation K. Keshavulu and others, the Minister said high-density cotton cultivation would have 60,000 to 75,000 plants per hectare in case of rain-fed farming and 1.1 lakh plants in case of irrigated farming. The researchers at the visiting centre told them that they were planning to have 1.4 lakh plants per hectare.
