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4 INCOME OF COTTON FARMER
4.1 Successful research for evolving high yielding cultivars and also GOP’s
production
package for the farmers has been responsible for increasing the income and
raising the standard
of living of cotton farmers.
4.2 Increase in the income of cotton farmer over the year is evident from the
following:
|
Production of cotton during 1969-70
|
= |
3.149 million bales |
|
Production of cotton during 2000-1 |
= |
10.681 million bales |
|
Increase in production |
= |
7.532 million bales |
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Assume price of one bale of cotton |
= |
Rs. 1l,000/-(Rs. 2,465/md on 2.8.03) |
|
Increase in income of farmers due |
= |
Rs. 83,000 million |
|
to increase in production |
= |
or US $ 1.4 thousand million |
Table 2
Cultivars evolved in Pakistan
|
4.F |
1914 |
289F |
1934 |
BS-1 |
1961 |
Reshmi |
1991 |
|
489F |
1921 |
LSS |
1934 |
NT(MlOO) |
1963 |
BH-36 |
1992 |
|
289F.l |
1921 |
l24F |
1941 |
MS39 |
1971 |
CIM-240 |
1992 |
|
SindhSudhar |
1933 |
NT(M4) |
1942 |
MS4O |
1971 |
FH-682 |
1992 |
|
|
|
l99F |
1946 |
149F |
1971 |
MNH-147 |
1992 |
|
|
|
AC-l34 |
1958 |
(Qalandari) |
1974 |
CRIS-9 |
1992 |
|
|
|
|
|
(Sarmast) |
1975 |
Gomal-93 |
1993 |
|
|
|
|
|
B557 |
1975 |
SLS-l |
1995 |
|
|
|
|
|
K-68/9 |
1977 |
Chandi-93 |
1995 |
|
|
|
|
|
NIAB-78 |
1983 |
CIM-llOO |
1996 |
|
|
|
|
|
MS-84 |
1983 |
CIM-448 |
1996 |
|
|
|
|
|
S-12 |
1988 |
FH-634 |
1996 |
|
|
|
|
|
Shaheen |
1988 |
Karishma |
1996 |
|
|
|
|
|
RH-i |
1990 |
MNH-329 |
1996 |
|
|
|
|
|
Gohar-87 |
1990 |
RH-112 |
1996 |
|
|
|
|
|
NIAB-86 |
1990 |
CIM-443 |
1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CIM-446 |
1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FVH-53 |
1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CIM-482 |
2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FH-900 |
2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FH-901 |
2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
BH-1l8 |
2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
MNH-554 |
2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CRIS-5A |
2001 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CIM-473 |
2002 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CIM-499 |
2003 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NIAB-999 |
2003 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FH-l000 |
2003 |
|
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|
|
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Al-seemi (Hydrid) 151-A |
2003 |
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