CropsFarmer Tapas Kumar Kurmi of Saitula village in Srimangal, Moulvibazar, is trialling the CB Hybrid-1 cotton variety. The Cotton Development Board now plans cotton on about 300 bighas.
CropsThe textile industry wants the 11% duty waiver kept to December; growers say cheaper imports arriving with the new crop could pull mandi prices down.
CropsMills expect demand above 36 million bales and a crop below 28 million after El Nino and drought, with imports already at a record 7.1 million bales and the duty exemption ending on 31 October.
The Mumbai cotton technology institute has signed an agreement with Trust ARS Rubber to make and sell reusable gloves designed to protect cotton-picking workers' hands from injuries caused by sharp cotton bracts.
CropsUSDA projects Southwest upland cotton abandonment at 34%, up from about 24% last season, with regional output down 23% and yields the lowest since 2003/04.
CropsKynetec's FarmTrak survey found 107 treatments a season on average, up from 95, with boll weevil control alone costing about R$2 billion as pest pressure per hectare climbs.
CropsADM works with more than 350 farmer producer organisations covering about 50,000 soybean growers in India and sold Regenagri-certified cotton from nearly 20,000 acres in Australia.
AgribusinessThe fourth WhoMadeMyCotton study finds that brands lose track of cotton closest to the farmer, and argues that gins and lasting relationships with growers, not data alone, can close the gap.
AgribusinessUnder its Great American Cotton Plan, USDA will let growers buy multiple crop-insurance endorsements from 2027, and its Foreign Agricultural Service will verify US cotton purchases by Bangladesh, Indonesia, Cambodia and Malaysia in exchange for tariff preferences on their apparel.
CropsA study backed by the seed industry finds unapproved HTBt cotton on 65-72 lakh acres in Kharif 2025-26, 24-30% of India's cotton area, with an informal seed market worth about Rs 1,500 crore and many samples carrying a gene never approved in India.
AgribusinessTrade analyst Robert Antoshak says US importers are pressing overseas factories for lower prices and moving orders among Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia rather than back to US plants.
CropsPetitions for nonregulated status cover MON 96012, tolerant to glyphosate, glufosinate, dicamba and HPPD- and PPO-inhibiting herbicides, and MON 89151, which carries three Bt insect-resistance proteins.
CropsCotton suits loam and sandy loam and is sown from early Asharh to mid-Shrabon; high-yielding varieties need about 1 kg of seed a bigha, hybrids 500-600 g.
