India Seed Company Covet Pakistan Pgenic Cotton Market

India's top seed companies, such as Monsanto Holdings and Rasi Seeds, have submitted petitions to India's highest Biotechnology Management Department, asking for approval to export genetically modified cotton to Pakistan, and Pakistan has conducted preliminary field trials of these seeds in the country to prepare for future approval.

If the cotton trade between the two countries is successful, it will open up a market with a market value of US $1 billion.

Cotton is the most important cash crop in Pakistan, which accounts for 8.2% of the total agricultural income, accounting for 3.2% of the total value of the country's total output. 2/3 of the total foreign exchange earnings from the whole country are from cotton products. The annual output value is 2 billion 500 million dollars. Pakistan and India share similar weather, so many cotton grown in India can also be planted in Pakistan. It is also about to approve the commercial planting of genetically modified cotton. Therefore, the agricultural sector in China and India are negotiating with the Pakistan agricultural sector to try to enter the market.

The India genetic engineering assessment committee is also going to export more than 20 genetically modified cotton varieties for experimental cultivation in Pakistan.

It is estimated that the losses caused by pests to agriculture in the world are as high as $12 million a year, of which India suffers about 600 billion rupees.

India uses about 8 billion US dollars of pesticides every year, which accounts for about 3 billion 800 million US dollars for cotton and Pakistan's cotton planting area is about half of India. The disease pressure is also similar to that of India. The pests are also the same as those in India. In recent years, because of the rapid reduction in cotton production in Pakistan, it has become an importer of cotton and imports more than 300 million kilograms each year. In order to solve the problem of cotton shortage, the government plans to adopt a variety of methods, including the introduction of genetically modified crops, the annual increase of 25 thousand acres of cotton planting area, and the 5% increase of 5% mu per mu plan to achieve the annual production of 20 million 700 thousand bundles.

In India, 90% of the cotton growing areas are genetically modified cotton, planted varieties of production, so that India has become a net exporter of cotton since 06 years ago. Its successful experience is worth learning from Pakistan.

Today, one or more genes in pgenic cotton plants are derived from a soil bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis. It can trigger the plant to produce insect resistant proteins and is effective only for the biggest pest species of cotton, bollworm. Therefore, it can greatly reduce the use of pesticides. Although the price of pgenic seeds is higher than that of ordinary cotton seeds, the cost of pesticide use is reduced during planting, so it can also save costs for growers.