Related Keywords: action plan presented, by 45 percent by 2025, cotton consumption, existing incentives for sugarcane, increase its cultivation areas, increasing the cotton production, Meeting of the federal cabinet, recommendation to rationalize
At a meeting of the federal cabinet, action plan was presented for increasing the cotton production and increase its cultivation areas by 45 percent by 2025 in the country, with recommendation to rationalize existing incentives for sugarcane.
According the minutes of the meeting, the cabinet was informed that due to different factors cotton production had faced virtual stagnation since 1991-92, which had been fluctuating between 10 and 12 million bales, with a disastrous fall to 9.9 million bales in 2015-16.
