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GOVERNMENT OF=20 INDIA
MINISTRY OF=20 AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE = AND=20 COOPERATION RAJYA = SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 693=20 ANSWERED ON 01.03.2001=20
PRODUCTION OF COTTON .=20

693. =

SHRI PREM CHAND GUPTA=20

Will = the Minister=20 of AGRICULTURE be pleased to state:-=20

(a) = whether it=20 is a fact that production of cotton is expected to go down due to = reduction in=20 area under cultivation and adverse weather conditions;

(b) = whether=20 official figures indicate that the area under cultivation has gone down = from=20 87.91 lakh hectares to 82.21 lakh hectares; and

(c) if so, what = steps=20 Government are taking to increase production of cotton in the country?=20

ANSWER

MINISTER=20 OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE

(SHRI SHRIPAD Y. NAIK)=20

(a)&(b): No, Sir. According to the advance estimates of=20 production made by the Ministry of Agriculture, the production of cotton = in the=20 year 2000-01 is expected to be 132 lakh bales of 170 Kgs. each as = compared to=20 116 lakh bales in the previous year. The area under cotton in the year = 2000-2001=20 is expected to be around 84.0 lakh hectares as against 87.6 lakh = hectares in=20 1999-2000.

(c): Government have taken a number of steps to = increase=20 production of cotton. These include, inter alia, a revised centrally = sponsored=20 scheme on Intensive Cotton Development Programme being implemented in 15 = cotton=20 growing States.=20

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