Cotton plant breeding importance and cotton production in the countries of the world.

Аннотация

The article elucidates the priority importance of cotton plant breeding not only in agriculture of our republic but all round the world. The special attention of authors is being paid to cotton‘s worldwide economic significance and growth of consumer‘s demand to the cotton product. According to the presenting information, currently more than 100 countries of the world are engaged in the growing of cotton plant, about 150 countries involved in cotton export and import. Moreover 100 million families and totally 350 million people have provided with employment. The role of advanced innovations, the mission of the ICAC, the latest data on the share of the major cotton producing countries, the indexes of raw cotton and fiber yields in the streamlining of our national cotton breeding and seed production were emphasized by the authors. Because, our republic on cotton production has ranked the sixth, next to China, India, USA, Pakistan and Brazil. On the raw cotton yield, it has the 12th rank (25,650 kg\ha), and on cotton fiber yield, it possesses the 29th place, which consisting of 599,00 kg\ha. On the light of government‘s innovative initiatives on improving of cotton production and on the results of world data analysis the authors have made the necessary inferences that our breeders and seed producers have also to assimilate the experiences of the foremost cotton producing countries like Australia, China and Brazil on cotton plant breeding, zoning and seed renovation technologies.