Better Cotton: An Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
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چکیده
Cotton is the largest industrial sector in Pakistan. However, due to bad traditional practices and use of high amount pesticides, whole industry lost about 10-15% cotton. For reasons socioeconomic environmental harm, Better Initiative (BCI) launched "Better Cotton" cotton production a more environmentally friendly alternative its efficient resource utilization lower externalities. CABI encourages farmers implement better principles criteria, standard system good agricultural (GAP), provide participatory training for small, medium large-sized farm workers their "learning groups" medium-sized farmers' fields. The aim this short communication article put together concise review production. In we briefly present history, importance, aim, distribution Initiative.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of applied agricultural science and technology
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2621-2528', '2621-4709']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55043/jaast.v6i1.35