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Indian Central Cotton Committee. Cotton Improvement in India

1931

The physiological investigation financed by the Committee in Sind aims at finding out the best sowing dates for the different cottons which will be grown under the Sukkar Barrage the optimum water requirements of the cotton plant and a study of the alkali problem under the conditions likely to be experienced when the change-over from inundation to perennial irrigation takes place. [...] The decision of the Committee two years ago to help by means of its funds in the spread of improved varieties of cotton and also to help to incorporate in general farm practice the results of the schemes financed by the Committee are not departures from the agreed policy but merely a natural development of. [...] THE further expansion of the Committee's programme of work must be regulated by the funds at its disposal and by the future of the schemes now in operation while the rate of expansion will to a large extent depend on the policy which the Committee adopts with regard to the schemes now being financed. [...] The experimental heat treatment of all seed in the Aligarh District was so encouragingly successful last year that something should be done to extend the practice over the whole of the cotton-growing districts of the United Provinces and the badly infested portions of the Punjab. [...] fibre-length and fibre-weight per unit length and on the other of the strength quality evenness of the yarn spun from the cotton as well as of the loss sustained by it in the blow-room and the number of yarn-breakages in the ring frame.
agriculture environment
Pages
29
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147188
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Indian Central Cotton Committee. Review of Committee’s Work and Research Policy
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