Cotton Corporation of India was established in 1970 under Companies Act 1956. It’s a Government of India’s corporate agency, engaged in diverse activities related to trade, procurement, and...
Cotton provides direct employment to around 60 Lakh farmers and indirect employment to around 4-5 Crore People via cotton based industries. It is also one of the largest...
India is world’s largest cotton exporter after United States. Till 2003-04, India was net importer of cotton; however after that India has been a net exporter thanks to...
Cotton is grown as a kharif crop in India. The planting period of cotton normally is from March to September, while the harvesting period is from October to...
Earliest evidences of cotton are from Mehrgarh where cotton cultivated 7,000 years ago. During the Indus Valley Civilization, cotton was cultivated abundantly and cotton industry was well developed....
It has been more than two years since April 2013, when the union government decided to lift some control on the sugar industry. Via this government scrapped the...
There has been a long pending demand for complete decontrol of the sugar industry. But successive central governments have hesitated to decontrol sugar. The prime reasons can be...
The process of the sugar factories has improved from an archaic process called Khandsari. In India the Sugar was produced in the Khandsari units and the produce was...
Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were top sugar producing states once upon a time. However, they have lost their position to states such as Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The...
In India, Sugarcane is grown as a Kharif Crop. It needs hot and humid climate with an average temperature of 21°C to 27°C. 75-150 cm rainfall is favorable...
