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Cotton should be grown on medium to heavy soils with good drainage and good water retention. Cotton should not be grown on shallow / shallow and light soils. Also, water retaining and wetlands are detrimental to cotton.

Cultivation of land
If a hard layer is formed in the soil due to plowing, it is broken. For dryland cultivation, deep plowing should be done once in two to three years in heavy and black soil. Plowing should be done after plowing. This causes the lumps to break. After weeding, two-three spacing of 30 cm. The width should be reduced.

Use of Organic Fertilizers Organic fertilizers improve soil texture. Increases water holding capacity, keeps air moving, and helps increase the number of bacteria that make food available and soluble. Positive changes occur in the physical, chemical and biological properties of the soil. Before final spraying, 5 tons (10-12 carts) for dryland cotton cultivation and 10 tons (20-25 carts) for horticultural cultivation.

Crop rotation
Depending on the type of cropping system (uncultivated, mixed, intercropped). In dryland areas, after soybean, sorghum, green gram or urad, cotton should be rotated next year. Since Bt cotton is coming early, next season after Bt cotton, wheat, summer groundnut is beneficial.

Selection of varieties
There are several Bt cotton hybrids available in the market at present. There is confusion among the farmers as to which of these varieties to choose. When choosing a variety of Bt cotton, consider the type of dryland or horticultural cultivation and the properties of the variety. Choose varieties that are good for production in your area. Juice sucking insects should be tolerant / resistant hybrid varieties. Varieties that are not susceptible to diseases (mar, dahiya etc.) should be selected. Water tolerant varieties should be selected. Bond size should be large for horticulture and medium for dryland cultivation. Varieties with regenerative capacity should be selected for horticultural cultivation. If the leaves remain green till the end, the work of preparing food continues till the end. As a result, the size of the late bond also remains large and the rate of bond breakage increases. Late varieties for horticultural cultivation and early maturing varieties for dryland cultivation should be selected.

For horticulture, late varieties should be selected which are good for sprouting and good copy of the thread. So that the market price of cotton can be better. The Bt cotton variety should be selected based on your own experience in the previous season as well as the crop from other farmers' fields as per the above characteristics. High yielding varieties are available in the market and without proper planning and management according to their properties, good yield will definitely be obtained.