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A Note on the Importance of Seed Multiplication Work in Cotton in Maximising Production and Suggestions to overcome the Difficulties met with in the Procurement of Seeds

Volume : 40
Issue: Jun-jun
Pages: 250 - 251
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Abstract


Of all achievements made by the Agricultural Department for maximising production and increasing the income of the cultivators, the evolution of improved strains of crops is the most important one. Even the worst critic of the Department cannot but admit the advantages derived by the cultivators by growing the departmental strains. Since a good deal of attention is paid by the cotton breeders to evolve a strain combining good yield, higher ginning percentage and better staple, growers of departmental strains are benefitted not only by the increased yield that they get, but also by the higher price offered to their produce on account of its higher ginning percentage and better staple. In order to see that the ryots derive the benefit of growing improved strains, sufficient quantity of pure seeds of improved strains should be made available to them.

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250 - 251
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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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