Cultivar Articles - Cotton

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Take care of the seed and harvest good cotton

Most of the economically important diseases that concern cotton producers are transmitted through the seed. See what the main diseases are and how to live with them.

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The danger of angular spot

Angular spot has great potential for damage and must be monitored to minimize problems for cotton crops. The etiological agent of cotton angular leaf spot is the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. malvacearum

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What to do with cotton seed?

Discover and enjoy the multiple uses of cotton seeds. Almost everything it produces is used by man.

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Resistance and fineness, the new characteristics of cotton

With the change in the profile of national cotton farming, moving from a completely manual to a mechanized production system, there was a need within the textile chain for a rapid improvement in the quality of raw materials in order to meet

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Brown bed bug: either him or the cotton

Among the species of bedbugs known in Brazil, Scaptocoris castanea is considered one of the most important, not only due to its wide geographic distribution in several Brazilian states, but also

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Defoliating, harvest cotton better

Through chemical defoliation, advantages are obtained, such as greater ease of harvesting, experts say.

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Standardizing cotton quality

Competition and the dispute for goods, that is, the law of supply and demand, forced producers, traders and industrialists to practice selectivity in their products, through the establishment of quality ranges.

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