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Bt Cotton Cultivation in Gujarat: Emerging Issues and Environmental Challenges

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India was first exposed to the use of insecticides way back in 1948. Between 1950 and 1970, which were the heydays of Green Revolution, Indian agriculture witnessed a surge in the use of organochlorines, organophosphates and carbamytes, which are in use even today.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Insecticides are an integral part of agro-chemicals. In this chapter, terms insecticides and pesticides are used interchangeably.

  2. 2.

    Recently, Bollgard 2, based on the pyramid technology, has been introduced which protects against bollworm and Spodoptera. Hence, because of the in-built protection against these pests in cotton, it is expected that the pesticide use in Bt cotton farms would decline due to wider adoption of Bollgard 2.

  3. 3.

    Though the study by Rupa et al. (1991) is an exception, it was not addressing the pesticide use behaviour in the context of technology shift towards Bt cotton.

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  1. Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Gota, Ahmedabad, 380 060, India

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    Sunil Nautiyal

  2. , Department of Botany, University of Delhi, University Road, Delhi, 110007, India

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  3. Landscape Research, Institute of Socioeconomics, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural, Eberswalder Str 84, Müncheberg, 15374, Germany

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Table A.1 Share of India in global cotton area and production
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Lalitha, N., Viswanathan, P.K. (2013). Bt Cotton Cultivation in Gujarat: Emerging Issues and Environmental Challenges. In: Nautiyal, S., Rao, K., Kaechele, H., Raju, K., Schaldach, R. (eds) Knowledge Systems of Societies for Adaptation and Mitigation of Impacts of Climate Change. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36143-2_18

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