Cotton Picker

To address the challenges of low productivity and mechanisation in cotton picking we @ Tierra, for the first time in India, have developed and successfully tested 3 hybrids with plant architecture suitable for High Density Planting System (HDPS) with over 80% synchronous boll maturity.HDPS is planting of more number of plants per unit area. Apart from higher yields, HDPS maximises the efficiency of costly farm inputs. In HDPS the plant population is 28000 to 30000 plants per acre compared to 8000 to 10000 in conventional planting systems. Hybrids available in the market today are not suitable for HDPS and machine picking.
Apart from breeding for HDPS and machine picking cotton, other research priorities at Tierra are sucking pest tolerance, drought tolerance and better fibre quality. Tierra collaborates with National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR) to discover molecular markers for various important genetic traits in cotton. For more details and product enquiries contact here.