Table: Cotton production and status

Sr.
No
1.
2.

3.
4.
5.
6.

7.

8.

10.

Attributes/Country/Region

Area under cotton and as percentage of

Gross Cropped Area (2012-13) (GoI, 2014)
Production and percentage of total
national production (2012-13) (GoI, 2014)

Unit of
measuremen
t
Million ha
Million bales (1
bale=170 Kg
lint)
Kg/ha
%

India

Gujarat

Punjab

11.98 (6%)

2.50 (20%)

0.48 (6%)

34.22

8.85 (26%)

2.00 (6%)

603
98.42

708
95.43

1.80

3.2 (6.61)
2.64

1.3

0.2

3.02
0.23
134
1,883
1,850
134

2.51
0.74
141
596
3,318
98

57

100 (Canal:
50%; Tube
wells: 50%)

Yield (2012-13) (GoI, 2014)

486
BT Cotton as percentage of total land area
92.44
under cotton (2013-14) (CABDCD, 2014)
Average landholding of cotton farmers
ha
2.6
Average land area under
ha
1.50
cotton/household (2008-09) (Choudhary
and Gaur, 2010)
Employment in cotton cultivation
a. Farmers (2008-09) (Choudhary and
Million
6.2
Gaur, 2010)
b. Farm workers (2006-07)
c. Children (2006-07)
Level of farm input usage (average) for cotton cultivation (Haque et al, 2015)
a) Pesticide (2007/08-09/10)
Kg/ha
4.24
b) Fertilizer
Kg/ha
0.21
c) Seed
Kg/ha
141
d) Irrigation
(2006/07Rs/ha
775
08/09)
Rs/ha
1,690
e) Machine labour
Mandays/ha
103
f) Human labour
Level of irrigation for cotton (2012-13)
%
36
(GoI, 2014)

11. a. Market Fee

b. Commission charges
c. Sale tax

(AGMARK, 2008)

12.

Cultivation season (Sowing to Harvesting)

13.

Alternative cotton production system

(sustainable)

0.5
1.0
Nil

%
April-July to
SeptemberDecember
Integrated
Pest
Manageme
nt (IPM),
Integrated
Nutrition
manageme
nt (INM),
Better
Cotton
Initiative
(BCI),
Fairtrade
(FT),
Organic
Cotton (OC)
, NonPesticidal
Manageme
nt (NPM),
Integrated
Water
Manageme
nt
(IWM),
Integrated

2.0
2.5
2.0

August to
January

June to October

Better Cotton
Initiative
(BCI),
Fairtrade
(FT), Organic
Cotton (OC),
Integrated
Pest
Management
(IPM)
Insecticide
Resistance
Management
(IRM): Baruch

Integrated Pest
Management
(IPM),
Better Cotton
Initiative (BCI)
Insecticide
Resistance
Management
(IRM): Faridkot

Crop
Manageme
nt (ICM)
Insecticide
Resistance
Manageme
nt (IRM)

References
AGMARK (2008): Post Harvest Profile of Cotton (http://agmarknet.nic.in/cotton_profile.pdf)
CABDCD (2014): Area coverage under Bt. Cotton vis--vis Traditional Cotton during 2011-12 to 2013-14, Cotton
Advisory Board and Directorate of Cotton Development, Mumbai
(http://164.100.47.132/Annexture_New/lsq16/2/au1882.htm)
CCI (2015): Current Cotton Scenario, Cotton Production and Balance sheet, The Cotton Corporation of India (
http://cotcorp.gov.in/current-cotton.aspx?pageid=4)
Choudhary, B. & Gaur, K. (2010): Bt Cotton in India: A Country Profile, ISAAA Series of Biotech Crop Profiles, ISAAA:
Ithaca, NY (https://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/biotech_crop_profiles/bt_cotton_in_indiaa_country_profile/download/Bt_Cotton_in_India-A_Country_Profile.pdf)
DRMU (2008):
GoI (2014) Agricultural Statistics at a Glance 2014, Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation,
Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Government of India (http://eands.dacnet.nic.in/PDF/Agricultural-Statistics-AtGlance2014.pdf) (page 120)

Haque, T., Bhattacharya, Mondira and Goyal, Ankita (2015) Socio-Economic Impact Assessment of BT Cotton in India
Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd
Singh, Sukhpal (2015): Draft paper
The Hindu (2014): Rs 48 crore project to focus on child labourers in cotton fields of Punjab, The Hindu, dated: 13 June
(online) (http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/rs-48-crore-project-to-focus-on-child-labourers-incotton-fields-of-punjab/article6110830.ece)
Venkateswarlu, D. (2007): Child Bondage Continues in Indian Cotton Supply Chain: More than 400,000 children in
India involved in hybrid cottonseed cultivation (http://www.indianet.nl/pdf/childbondagecotton.pdf), page 5.
Additional sources
http://www.isaaa.org/india/media/ISCI_FullReport_Small.pdf (page 21)
CICR (2014): Central Institute for Cotton Research, Coimbatore, India (http://www.cicr.org.in/Database/dbcapp4.html)
Latest study on child labour
http://www.indianet.nl/pdf/CottonsForgottenChildren.pdf
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-26294513
http://germanwatch.org/tw/bay-stug.pdf

Sources earlier used but I dont know where

http://www.indianmirror.com/indian-industries/cotton.html
http://agricoop.nic.in/imagedefault/trade/cotton%20profile.pdf
http://www.indiastat.com/table/agriculture/2/irrigation/145/795706/data.aspx

A.R. Reddy, S.M. Yelekar, R.B. Petkar and N. Anuradha. Total Factor Productivity of Cotton in Gujarat (India) 2011.Proceedings of World Cotton
Research Conference on Technologies for Prosperity (WCRC-5)
Table 3
Year not found
Gujarat
Punjab
India

Area under cotton

(ha)
2000000
545000
8009000

No of cotton
farmers
1400000
234000
6164311

Average size
(ha)
1.43
2.33
1.30

Source: http://www.ncipm.org.in/nispm/ReportSystem/PDFs/Cotton%20Statistics%20at%20a%20Glance.pdf
Table 1.18 (page 12)
Table 3

2014-15
Gujarat
Punjab
India

Table 4

productio
n (lakh
Area (lakh ha)
yield (kg/ha)
kg)
21252
30.06
707
2381
4.5
529
67957
126.55
537

bale (kg)
170
170
170

Lakh bales
125
14
400

Table 5

Annexure referred to in reply to Part(a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.1882 due for reply on 22.07.2014
Area coverage under Bt. Cotton vis--vis Traditional Cotton during 2011-12 to 2013-14
Area under Cotton (in Lakh Hectare)
2012-13

2011-12

State
Bt.Cotton

Traditional
Cotton

Total

Bt.Cotton

Traditional
Cotton

Total

2013-14*
Bt.Cotton

Traditional
Cotton

Total

Punjab

5.46

0.14

5.60

4.80

0.00

4.80

4.97

0.08

5.05

Haryana

5.88

0.53

6.41

5.73

0.41

6.14

4.87

0.79

5.66

Rajasthan

4.00

0.70

4.70

3.15

1.35

4.50

2.38

0.65

3.03

North Total

15.34

1.37

16.71

13.68

1.76

15.44

12.22

1.52

13.74

Gujarat

26.78

2.84

29.62

22.14

2.83

24.97

25.68

1.23

26.91

Maharashtra

38.95

2.30

41.25

38.15

3.31

41.46

36.92

1.80

38.72

6.35

0.71

7.06

5.38

0.70

6.08

5.84

0.37

6.21

Central Total

72.08

5.85

77.93

65.67

6.84

72.51

68.44

3.40

71.84

Andhra
Pradesh

18.26

0.53

18.79

21.08

2.92

24.00

21.08

1.61

22.69

Karnataka

4.60

0.94

5.54

3.88

0.97

4.85

5.57

0.37

5.94

Tamil Nadu

0.90

0.43

1.33

1.00

0.28

1.28

1.00

0.39

1.39

South Total

23.76

1.90

25.66

25.96

4.17

30.13

27.65

2.37

30.02

0.05

1.43

1.48

0.10

1.59

1.69

0.10

1.57

1.67

111.23

10.55

121.78

105.41

14.36

119.77

108.41

8.86

117.27

Madhya
Pradesh

Odissa/Other
s
Grand Total

Source: Cotton Advisory Board and Directorate of Cotton Development, Mumbai

* 3rd advance Estimates

Table 6
Yield (kg/ha), Gross income (Rs/ha), cost of cultivation (Rs/ha) and net income (Rs/ha) from cotton

Gujarat
Punjab
India

Yield (Kg/ha)

GI (Rs/ha)

2086
1857

88581
77562

CoC
(kg/ha)
35442
35725

Source: http://www.isaaa.org/india/media/ISCI_FullReport_Small.pdf (page 79)

NI (kg/ha)
53139
41837