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M Amin Zahid:
Agriculture Officer (Plant Protection) Pakpattan
0300-6161592

(School of agriculture)
Cotton
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 Cotton Key Points.
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 Gossypium Arborium ( Daisi Cotton).
 Gossypium Hisrsutum ( American Cotton).
 Family: Malvaceae.
 Self pollinated crop.
 Tap root system (which can be penetrate deep up to
200 cm)
 Monopodial & Sympodial Branches.
 Fruit is called Ball or Capsule.
 Seed consist of 15% Protein & 25% Oil.
 Cotton Key Points.
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 No 4th in World for cotton Production.
 70 % Cotton Production in Punjab.
 Total Sowed Area Last year ( 3821 Thousand
acre)
( 1546.27 thousand Hec)
 95% BT verities grow in Pakistan
 BT Strip is used to check the Bt Gene in cotton
Variety.
 Kanamycin Spray.
( 15 days/ 50 gm.) ( 30/100) (60/200) (90/400)
 Cotton Key Points.
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 Mera Soil Best, No Hard Pan, Lesser Leveling.
 Used 10-20% Daisy Varieties with Bt Cotton.
 1 Kg Sulfuric Acid ( Ghandak Ka Taizab) used for
delinting of 10 Kg seed.
 Used seed treatment for prevention of sucking insect
pest till 30 days.
6-8 Kg/Acre ( 75% Germination)
8-10 Kg/Acre (60 % Germination).
 BT & Non BT Verities:
BT

 IUB-2013, 222,
 Non-BT

 MNH-786
 BS-15, 20
 Niab Kiran
 CIM-600, 602, 598
 Sito 124
 663,343,
 CIM 610
 CYTO-179
 CIM 620
 MNH-886, 1016,1020
 GS Ali 7
 1026, 1035,
 FH-114, 142,490 NISB: 1011,
CIM: 663, 343,
 FH-Lalazar, Super Hataf-3
 RH-668 CEMB Cotton Clean 03
ICI-2424
 NIAB-1048, 545, 878
 Time & Method of
Sowing
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01 April to 30 April 01 May to 31 May

 P*P = 12 Inch (30 CM)  P*P = 6-9 Inch

 R*R= 30 Inch (75 CM)  R*R= 30 Inch (75 CM)
 17500 Plant Population  23000-35000
Plant Population

For Desi Cotton:

R*R= 45 Cm
P*P= 20 Cm
 Weeds Control
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Pre Emergence Post Emergence
 Pandimethaline  Glyphosate
 Meolachlore  Heloxyphop
 S Metolachlore  Quizelophop

 Used T Jet Nozzle For

Spray.
 Calibration
 Irrigation
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In Line Sowing On Ridges
 1st irrigation after 30 to  1st after 3 to 4 days.
35 days,  2nd, 3rd & 4th after 6 to 9
 And reaming after 12- days,
15 days  And reaming after 15
days.
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Diseases of cotton
1- Bacterial leaf blight
 ( Angular Leaf Spot,

Black Arm)
 Xanthomonas
Campestris PV
Malvacerum
 Brown Spot appear on
leaves later become
black on severe attack.
 Seed Borne & Bacterial
Disease.
2- Boll rot
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 Pantoea Agglomerans
Bacterial disease.
Boll convert into
black color,
Leaves color turned
into yellow.
3-CLCV
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 Due to Whitefly.  Upward turned (Cup)
 1992 Sever Attack. Leaf Enation
4-Cotton Wilt
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 Fusarium Oxysporium
 Verticillium dahliae
 Fungal Disease.
 Plant remain shorts
5- Root Rot of cotton
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 Fungal & Bacterial
Disease.
 Pest Scouting.
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 Pest Scouting is check the no of insect pest in
specific area.
 ETL (Economical Threshold Level).
 Below ETL or Above ETL.
 ETL (Economical Injury Level).
 In routine ( 07 Days). In severe Condition ( 02/07)
 For Sucking insect ( 20 Leaves)
 For boll worms ( 5 plants on 1 point & same as on 5
point).
 Beneficial Insects:
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 White Fly – ( Chrysoperla Carnea) (Lace wing)
( 1-2 Larvae /Plant).
 Cotton Boll Worm – Trichograma Cards (Wasp)
 (10-15 Cards/ Acre).
 Insect Pests of Cotton.
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1- Jassid
 Yellow Spot on leaves
& sides turned into red.
 Turned downward.
(Cup Shape).
 ETL – 1/Leaf.
 Rain & Humidity
increase the attack.
02- Whitefly
 Suck Sap (Adult & 
nymph).
 Grow Black Mold.
 Spread CLCV.
 ETL- 5 /Leaf (Adult +
Nymph
03- Thrips
 Lower Side of leaf
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turned into White color.
 Collapse of leaf.
 In severe attack , fallen
of leaf occur.
 ETL- 8-10 /Leaf.
04-Cotton Mites
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 Adult & Nymph both
suck the sap.
 Attack in patches.
 Leaves turned Yellow,
Red , dry, Fall.
 Make web on lower
side of leaf.
 ETL- 10-15/Leaf.
 Found on lower side of
leaf.
05-Cotton Steiner's
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Red Cotton Bug Dusky Cotton Bug
 Rotening of cotton boll.  Reduce ( Weight of seed,
 Stain the cotton into Germination of seed, Oil
red. Concentration, Lint
 Un opened bolls. Quality of seed)
06-Mealy Bug
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 Suck the sap & cause
Weakness in the shoots.
 Shoots turn into dry.
 Secrete honeydew.
 Grow Black fungus.
 Effect photosynthesis.
 ETL- On Observation.
Spotted Boll Worm. American Boll Worm

 Make hole in twigs,

shoot and later in bolls.   Feed on twigs, shoots,
flowers, boll.
 Ronishing of boll.  3 larvae / 25 plants
 3 larvae / 25 plants
 Pink Boll Worm
 Pectinophora gossypila
 Gelechiidae
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 Larvae Attack on twigs,
Flowers, And Bolls.
 Rosette Flowers.
 Larvae entered and feed
on seeds in bolls.
 PB- Rope use for control.
 Destroy the ginning
factories wastage till 31
January,
 ETL- 5 larvae in 100
bolls.
 Attack on only cotton.
Army Worm
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 Larvae feed on leaves &
Bolls.
 Gregarious in nature
 Leaves look like sieve
after attack.
ETL- On
Observation.
 Picking
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 40 – 50% bolls Should be opened.
 Right time : 10: 00 AM to 04: 00 PM
 Shiny Weather.
 Picking of American Cotton after (15-20 Days
Interval)
 Daisy Cotton ( 8 Days Interval).
 Don’t mix yellow Spotted Cotton with white cotton.
 Storage of cotton:
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 Moisture % Should be 8 to 10%.
 During storage kept 30 tablets of Aluminum
phosphide/ 1000 3 for prevention of Pink Boll worm
larvae in seeds.
 0800-17000 Agriculture Helpline
 Attached Orgnisations
 WWF
 BCI (Better Cotton Initiative)