Cotton farming plays a significant role in providing direct livelihood to 11 million farmers. The cotton crop mainly confined to northern, central and southern zones with about 90 per cent of the area comes under three zones. This study aims at sources of growth and factors affecting the cotton area and production using, time series data took from 1990 to 2021 for cotton producing zones of India. Furthermore, periods have been classified into period 1(1990 to 2000), period 11 (2001 to 2010) and period 111 (2011 to 2021). There was a significant increase in growth in area from 2.68 to 3.22 per cent from period I to period III in southern zone and same findings has been observed in rest ofthe zones. In order to estimate sources of growth cobb-douglasproduction function and bai-perron test were employed. The results clearly indicate that the MSP; net irrigated area and lagged yield are significantly affecting the cotton acreage across zones and India. The bai and perron test clearly shows that therewas abrupt increase in area and production of cotton after commercial release of BT cotton across the zones and India. Therefore, improvement in the procurement network of cotton under MSP and effective implementation of decentralized procurement policycould benefit the larger section of the farmers particularly in cotton producing zones. The productivity of the cotton could be improved by developing biotic and abiotic resistance variety helps in expansion of the cotton area.
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