The Present Position of Strain Nandyal 14 in the 'Northerns'Area.

Abstract

The Cotton grower is worried.His crop has again fallen below exception.He got his seed from the best shop in the bazaar.Yes,they say in the market that his stuff is as poor in quality as ever.The buyer does not prize it to his satisfaction.It is annoying in the extreme.He suspects that insects and diseases are partly responsible for his woes.Yet he instinctively feels that in spite of them his crop could do better,but he does not know.Something is wrong some where.He goes seeking for advice and happily meets the plant breeder.The breeder understands him and tells him that one reason as he could see from an examination of his crop is that his seed is impure.that is,it is a mixture of several races of cotton.He infuss hope into the dejected grower by saying that the difficulty can be overcome,and that ere long he will be having a crop which will not only be uniform with a fairly steady yield ,but will also be valued highly in the market.The breeder sets to work accordingly.He labours for a time and suceeds in discovering what he calls a promissing strain-from the local stock.The eager cultivator welcomes it.and is amazed to find it scoring high directly on being put on the market.Buyers rush up to him prefering his produce to others. All goes well with him.and he is carried on the crest of fortune,but only for a while.Soon a tide turns to his vexationThe demand goes down suddeny in thr market.and the srtrain ni longer fetches him more money then thr original bulk.The grower gets disheartened.The puzzled who has been watching the whole show Quickly adjusts his machinery o improvement to meet current urgent demands.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002195

Pages

368 - 370

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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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