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Organic cotton - Re-inventing the wheel
By Meena Menon
Published jointly by the Deccan Development Society, Village Pastapur, Zaheerabad, Medak District, Pin-502 220, Andhra Pradesh, India, and Kalpavriksh, J-20, Jangpura Extension, Il Floor, New Delhi 110 024, India.
This is a report by Meena Menon on the extent and success of organic cotton production in India. In 1996, when the author first became interested in organic cotton production, there were few farmers attracted by alternative methods. Now cotton is grown organically on many thousands of hectares, producing some 17 per cent of the country's crop.
In the last decade, many farmers...