Effect of Plant Spacing and Fertilizers on Hirsutum Cotton Genotypes

ISBN-13: 9783659755729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 144 str.

Deotalu Ashish Suresh;Kubde Keshor J.;Ganvir Shweta S.

Opis

Cotton the word is derived from Arabic word Quntun. Cotton (Gossypium spp.) popularly known as White gold or king of fibre. It plays a prominent role in the rural, national and international economy. Cotton is grown mainly for its fibre used in the manufacture of cloth for mankind. In spite of severe competition from synthetic fibres, cotton continues to enjoy a place of prime importance in the textile industry. In recent years, cotton apparels are being preferred to the synthetic ones due to the increasing health consciousness among the people. Besides fibre, cotton is also valued for its oil and cotton seed cake (a by product of cotton oil mill) is a very important feed for livestock. Cotton seed contains about 15 to 20 per cent oil, which after refining, can be used in soap industries. After removing oil cotton seed cake is obtain which is nutritious feed for livestock and also a concentrated organic manure. It contains 6.4 percent Nitrogen, 2.9 per cent Phosphorus and 2.2 percent Potassium.

O autorze

Mr. Ashish Suresh Deotalu is working as Senior Research Fellow, Cotton Research Unit, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth Akola (M.S) India. He was awarded MSc Agril.(Agronomy) from Dr. P.D.K.V. Akola. He has 2 years experience in research work. He has in credit 4 Research Papers published in National and International Journal and 25 articles.