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In an article on ‘hybrid Bt-cotton’, Gutierrez1 concludes that government agencies should encourage development of high-density short-season (HDSS) varieties as a straightforward solution to stabilize cotton production in India which, in his view, has suffered due to the many ills of cultivating Bt-cotton hybrids since 2002. While HDSS varieties of Gossypium hirsutum could provide another option to the Indian cotton farmer under subsistence farming conditions, technology stakeholders need to be watchful and factor in the hard lessons learnt from the pre- and post-Bt cotton eras.
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