Bt Cotton - Prospects and Challenges - A Review Article

Abstract

India being agriculturally dominant country and over two-third of its entire working population are engaged in agriculture activities, in recent past, sectors like services. IT and manufacturing has shown smart progress but at same time progress in agriculture sectors have been sluggish. One can argue that this is more because of unpredictable climate/global warming. As the contribution of agriculture in country’s GDP is dwindling with time, and the latest prediction of the decelerated food production to a very alarming rate, the planners, executers and other agencies have started realizing for a significant change/reform in agriculture sector. There is a need to boots agriculture products with new technologies which can help increasing the production.