In past 15 to 20 years, many new cottonseed varieties have been introduced into market. After availability of new varieties in the High Plains marketplace, cotton producers of West Texas have plenty of substitutes for glyphosate and Bacillus thuringiensis technology.
Monsanto offers new alternatives to cotton producers like Bayer CropScience's LibertyLink for herbicide resistance technology, Bollgard II and Roundup Ready Flex resistance.
PhytoGen offered Widestrike for first time in High Plains market as an alternative for Bt cotton technology.
In 2006, around 140 cottonseeds are available for cotton producers and it is expected to increase in 2007.
It is important that producers should actively participate in development of different cotton varieties.
Biotechnology has made a big impact in cotton industry because of new cotton varieties available in the past few years.
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