India is the world's second largest exporter of cotton, but quality problems with Indian cotton are evident in surveys of international textile mills and the discount Indian cotton receives on world markets. Using a unique data set of Indian cotton prices and quality attributes from 5 Indian...

Cotton is a crop that underwent continuous technology and policy shifts over period of time, and thus is a test case through which one can examine the changes in the growth and associated instability. The major technology and policy changes cotton cultivation saw include the commercial hybrids'...

The study has quantified the welfare gains from adoption of Bt cotton in India. The adoption of Bt cotton has increased income levels and generated substantial gains due to higher yields and lower cost of production through lower cost on plant protection. During the period 2002-15, the total...

This dissertation explores the ways in which genetically modified (GM) cotton seeds, rice seeds, and organic cotton seeds in Telangana, India set farmers on diverging economic, environmental, and social trajectories. GM cotton, a cash crop sold under hundreds of different brand names by private...