Recommendations for farming communities:

1. The farmers of Wagad Zone are advised to follow the spacing of 210cm x 30 cm for rainfed cotton, to have operational convenience with tractor drain attachments and to reduced cost of cultivation without significant reduction in seed cotton yield.
2. The cotton growing farmers of Wagad Zone interested to produce Organic Cotton (G Cot 21) apply nitrogen (40 kg / ha ) through Castor Cake or FYM + Castor Cake + Azotobacter seed inoculation under rainfed condition.
3. The farmers of North – West Agro climatic Zone (Wagad Zone) are advised to grow cotton crop (var. G Cot 21) at wider distance (either 2.10 x 0.30 or 2.40 x 0.30 m) with one row of inter crop planting of Green gram  (var. GM – 4) or Black gram (var. T-9) to get higher equivalent seed cotton yield and net realization.
4. The farmers of North-West Agro-climatic Zone (Wagad Zone) are advised to irrigate cotton crop through alternate furrow at flowering and boll formation stage and also fertilized the crop with 80 kg N/ha in two equal splits at 25-30 DAS and DAS 50-60 to get higher seed cotton yield and net realization (BCR 2.99).
5. The farmers of herbaceum cotton growing area of North-West agro-climatic zone-V are advised not to apply phosphorous in rainfed herbaceum cotton as it did not significantly affect the seed cotton yield.
6. The farmers of North-West Agro-climatic Zone-V growing rainfed deshi cotton  variety ADC-1 are advised to sow the crop at 210 cm x 30 cm spacing and fertilize @ 40 kg N/ha (20 kg/ha as basal and 20 kg/ha as top dressing at 30-40 DAS) to get higher seed cotton yield and net return.
7. The farmers of North-West Agro-climatic Zone-V growing rainfed cotton are advised to apply 100% N through FYM (8 t/ha) or 75% N through fertilizer (30 kg N/ha) + 25% N through vermicompost (600 kg/ha) to get higher seed yield and net return.
8. The farmers of Bhal and coastal agro-climatic zone growing rainfed deshi cotton are advised to sow cotton variety G Cot 21 at 60 x 30 cm spacing to get higher seed cotton yield and net return.
9. The farmer of  North-West Agro-climatic Zone growing desi cotton under limited irrigation are advised to irrigate one irrigation at 20 days after withdrawal of monsoon to get higher seed cotton yield and net return.

Germplasm

The Centre has been maintained total three hundred two germplasm lines of desi cotton (G. herbaceum) and some of them were collected before independence. The characterization has been completed of all germplasm lines for thirty seven characters during 2016-17 & 2017-18. On the basis of two years average phenotypic data, the results are shown in graph. 

Note: Data on bar shows number of accessions falls under respective group of particular characters.