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| Article Name : | | | COTTON PRODUCTION AND MARKETING IN INDIA & KARNATAKA | | Author Name : | | | Teekappa M. , M. Basheer Ahmed Khan | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-5408 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Indian economy is agro-based and agriculture is its mainstay as it constitutes the backbone of the rural livelihood security system. Agriculture has been and still continues to be the life line of the Indian economy since economic security is essentially predicted upon the agricultural and allied sectors. The agriculture sector encompasses crop production, animal husbandry, fisheries, agri-business, etc. Crop production depends upon crucial inputs such as good seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, human labour, machinery and management. The commercial crops are the main source of income for maximum farmers of the country one of the important crop is Cotton, which is also known as ‘white gold’, dominates India’s cash crops, and makes up 65 per cent of the raw material requirements of the Indian textile industry. China is the largest producer of cotton in the world, whereas India is only the third largest. Interestingly, China today with only half the area under cotton production as compared to India, produces one and-a-half times more cotton, has one-and-a-half times the world market share and three times the yield. | | Keywords : | | |
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