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One of the biggest commercial crop of India, cotton, is receiving a boost in its sowing and production as the monsoon has shown a predictable normal behavior for the 2017 favouring the crop.
Apart from the large cotton growing states of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Telangana, farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan seem to be switching to cotton from foodgrain crops,
Last year, despite the Telangana government asking its farmers to grow pulses instead of cotton, the majority of them continued with cotton and enjoyed good returns.
