Department of Cotton, TNAU, Coimbatore-641 003
Email: cotton@tnau.ac.in
Online published on 17 December, 2015.
Indian cotton production has reached 375 lakh bales, after meeting 297 lakh bales of domestic demand besides sparing 90 lakh bales for export. However, the annual requirement of extra long staple (ELS) cotton is about 7.60 lakh bales against the current production of 5.0 lakh bales. In G. hirsutum species, the availability of ELS cotton varieties is very limited. The newly developed TCH 1716 is a high yielding genotype with a fibre length of 35.6mm. The boll size is also large. It is a boon in the production of extra long staple cotton in India.
Cotton, Extra long staple, large boll size
