Title: Cotton
Subtitle: Some Insights
Description: Cotton is a gift of nature to meet one of the three basic needs: food, 
cloth and shelter. Presently, Punjab is facing a serious and mammoth 
challenge of depleting under ground water resources due to a large area 
under paddy cultivation. Crop diversification is the need of the hour 
in the State with cotton being one of the best fit for it. At the national 
level, cotton is facing the challenges of lower productivity, insect-pest 
resistance, diseases and physiological issues. ‘Cotton: Some Insights’ 
with diverse collections of topics from experts around the globe has 
discussed many of these issues as well as included recent advances in 
cotton. The joint efforts of the “Crop Improvement Society of India” 
and the cotton team of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana has brought out this
nice compilation being dedicated to the diamond jubilee celebrations 
of PAU. This book will be useful to the cotton researchers and 
students as it includes prospective of cotton researchers across globe