Question

Name the cotton growing areas in India.

Answer 1

Hint: In India, cotton is cultivated in the Northern, Middle, and Southern Zones in three distinct agro ecological areas. Cotton is grown in both tropical and subtropical regions and needs consistently high temperatures of 21°C to 30°C. When the temperature drops below 20°C cotton growth is delayed. Frost is the cotton plant's enemy number one and is grown in areas with a minimum of 210 free days in one year.

Complete Answer:
Cotton - Cotton is a softened, fluffy staple fiber growing around the seeds of the Gossypium genus cotton seedlings in the Malvaceae mallow family in a boll or protective case. The cellulose is almost pure. The cotton bolls increase the scattering of the seeds under natural conditions.

Crop - Cotton is a kharif crop that needs to mature for 6 to 8 months.
- Its seed and harvest time varies according to climate conditions in different parts of the world. It is planted in Punjab and Haryana in April-May and harvested in December-January that may harm the crop prior to the winter frost.
- It is sown until October in the peninsula of India and harvested from January to May because winter frost is not a possibility.
- It is cultivated as a kharif and rabi in Tamil Nadu.
- Here after September the rainfall is taking place and in October cotton is sown. In January-February, the irrigated crop is planted.
- Most crops of kharif are mixed with maize, jowar, ragi, sesamo, rice, grass, and certain seeds.

Cultivation of cotton - Cotton cultivation is closely associated with the Deccan, Malwa and Gujarat plateaus' deep black soils (regur).
- The Satluj-Ganga Plain and the red and laterite Peninsular areas are also well formed in alluvial soils. The fertility of the soil rapidly depletes cotton. Therefore, it is very important to apply fertilizers and manures periodically to soils.
- The cultivation of cotton is tropical and subtropical and needs a consistently high temperature of 21°C to 30°C. When the temperature falls below 20°C, cotton growth is slowed.

Cotton growing areas - In large parts of the world Cotton is a crop of the Kharif. Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka and parts of it including Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Pradesh, Prague and Maharashtra. Andhra Pradesh and Karel. Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana are the major cotton-growing countries.

Note: In the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh, in foot of the Bolan Pass, Balochistan, Pakistan was found the earliest evidence for cotton in the old world dated 5500 BC and preserved in copper beads. Cotton is grown in over 12 countries in India but Gujarat has completed the list this year with 125 Lakh Bales in production.