Delineation of Efficient Cotton Growing Regions of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Cotton is an immensely important crop for the sustainable economy of India and livelihood of the Indian cotton farming community. Identification of potential regions would help in increasing the productivity, ensures better utilization of available resources and avoid wastage of resources in the inefficient zones. Efficient cropping zones of the Cotton crop of Tamil Nadu were keyed out with 30 years data (1985-2015) using Relative Yield Index (RYI) and Relative Spread Index (RSI). The results reveled that in Tamil Nadu, fifteen districts were found for MECZ and three for ECZ. Coimbatore is most essential area for cotton crop. Similarly eight districts are coming under LECZ because RSI were very less compare to RYI. Tiruchirapalli and Ramanathapuram both the district have less RYI and RSI indicating NECZ for cotton crop.

Delineating Efficient Cropping Zones of Potato and Chilli in Tamilnadu

“…Several studies have used RSI and RYI to identify efficient crop zones of various crops in Tamil Nadu, viz. rice, sorghum, black gram, cotton, sugarcane [6,7], pearl millet, red gram, , green gram, chick pea, horse gram [8], and efficient cropping zones for groundnut in Tamil Nadu [9]. But Efficient Cropping Zones of horticultural crops is still an exploration to be taken up by researchers and this paper determines to identify the hotspots of potato and chilli crops along with their zonal shift towards cropping.…”