DESI COTTON – देशी कपास (100 Gm)

🌿🧵 Desi Cotton (Kapas) Growing Guide
🔹 Common name ➜ Desi cotton, Kapas
🔹 Scientific name ➜ Gossypium arboreum
🔹 Type ➜ Fiber crop 🌱
🔹 Category ➜ Traditional / desi variety

✔️ Suitable for:
➜ Organic farming
➜ Natural farming
➜ Desi beej conservation
➜ Sustainable agriculture

🌟 Why Desi Cotton?
✔️ More pest resistant 🐛
✔️ Requires less water 💧
✔️ Better for organic farming 🌿
✔️ Strong fiber quality
✔️ Ideal for: ➜ Low-input farming
➜ Rainfed areas
➜ Sustainable cotton production

🌤️ Climate & Sowing Time 🇮🇳
India:
➜ Kharif crop ➜ May – June 🌧️

📍 Punjab:
➜ Best sowing: • May – June
✔️ Best temperature: ➜ 25–35°C
❌ Sensitive to frost

🌾 Soil Requirement
➜ Best ➜ Black soil / loamy soil
➜ pH ➜ 6–8
✔️ Suitable for: ➜ Dryland farming
➜ Organic cotton farming

🌰 Seed Selection
➜ Recommended: • Desi cotton seeds 🌱
• Organic kapas seeds
• Non-GMO seeds
• Open pollinated varieties
✔️ Benefits: ➜ Seed saving possible
➜ Better adaptability
➜ Natural resistance

🌱 Sowing Method
➜ Direct sowing
Seed depth: ➜ 3–4 cm
Spacing:
➜ Row ➜ 60–75 cm
➜ Plant ➜ 30–45 cm
✔️ Helps: ➜ Better plant growth
➜ Good boll formation

🌿 Organic Fertilizer Plan
Before sowing:
➜ FYM ➜ 8–10 ton/acre
➜ Vermicompost
➜ Neem cake
During growth:
➜ Jeevamrit spray
➜ Panchgavya
➜ Biofertilizers
✔️ Improves: ➜ Fiber quality 🧵
➜ Plant health
➜ Soil fertility

💧 Irrigation
➜ Rainfed crop (mostly) 🌧️
➜ If needed ➜ irrigation every 10–15 days
Critical stages: ➜ Flowering 🌼
➜ Boll formation
✔️ Requires less water than hybrid cotton

🐛 Organic Pest Control
Common pests:
➜ Bollworm 🐛
➜ Aphids
➜ Whitefly
Control:
➜ Neem oil spray 🌿
➜ Pheromone traps
➜ Bird perches
✔️ Desi cotton naturally more resistant ✔️

🌼 Flowering & Boll Formation
➜ Starts ➜ 60–70 days
➜ Cotton bolls form after flowering

🧺 Harvesting
➜ Ready in ➜ 150–180 days
Harvest when: ➜ Bolls open
➜ Cotton visible (white fluff) 🤍
✔️ Pick in dry weather

⏳ Crop Duration
➜ Total life ➜ 5–6 months

📦 Yield
➜ Average ➜ 5–8 quintal/acre (lint cotton)
✔️ Lower yield than hybrid
✔️ But: ➜ Lower cost
➜ Higher profit margin 💰

🌱 Special Benefits
✔️ Eco-friendly crop 🌿
✔️ Saves indigenous seeds
✔️ Supports natural farming
✔️ Strong demand in: ➜ Organic textile market
➜ Handloom industry

🪴 Can You Grow Cotton on Roof?
✔️ Possible (small scale)
Container:
➜ Grow bag ➜ 15–18 inch
Notes:
➜ Limited yield
➜ Good for learning purpose