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Options Méditerranéennes : Série Etudes; n. 1988-I 1988

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Cotton research in Israel

Industrial Crops Division - Cotton Production Bi Marketing Board

to develop improved production technologies necessary for attaining high yield and quality on one hand, and for reducing input costs on the other ha.nd, all of

which help growers to increase their net profit.

being conducted a t r e s e a r c h c e n t e r s , u n i v e r s i t i e s , r e g i o n a l

experiment stations, as well as in commercial fields all over the country. The whole programme is

coordinated by a steering committee, the members of

the Cotton Board and from growers organizations.

Some of the subjects taken care of will mentioned.

- B r e e d i n g a n d e v a l u a t i o n o f varieties

. .

objects in this field of yields, to

diseases and insect pests.

tests. 1 has in the hot

; it as well a s

good : i t

been low in the past. New

quality,

look of

1985.

(G. hirsutum ^X G. barbadense)

yields (Acala level) of lone:

now being

; also some ginning and spinning studies of that cotton now being conducted.

and technology

Tillage : few

aimed at developing some new tillage equipment and systems that would not compact soil to s u c h a n extent as conventional systems do.

of a

of system.

Combination equipment by

a system and

compaction may be avoided by shifting to such systems. The implications of the new

should be

them on a wide a

6 wide

implements can be mounted, has been developed and is being tested.

options

G i n n i n g : now give

of by

effect of

technological quality is now being studied.

Stickiness of L i n t : Some new

eliminating and evaluating stickiness of lint, being developed and tested.

- Weed and pest control

X a n t h i u m Abutilon Theophrastii, Datura spp. (Jimson weed) have been

the last few seed of some of in the

new methods that developed by

of the weeds as

to what has been up to now. The biology

of is still

f a i l t o o b t a i n good conventional weeds too,

of the new to

solve to cut costs of

Examination of combinations of mechanical and of weed populations

developed. that is being

is : : of

being devoted to it.

: New insecticides

oil combinations being effects and efficiency

of by

field-collected of to

insecticides widely used, is so as possible.

a s Heliothis, the "White fly",

and how they affect plant and yield development a t

collected enable building of insect-plant models.

-

An Heliothis model, b e e n d e v e l o p e d , i s n o w b e i n g u s e d s e m i -

: of white fly

B a c i l l u s turingiensis

t e s t e d a g a i n s t

résultats ; the method is now being tested on semi- insects too, is being done.

effectively used on a wide

Also heliothis

now as a

Heliothis male confusion by is now

The following subjects too of by

:

- heliothis armigora and its ;

- aphid ;

- examination of

of the Tobacco whitefly (Bernisia tubaci) nymphs,

; -development of a

building-up of the Tobacco Whitefly population ;

-

of the whitefly ; -effects of sublethal doses of

of the spiny ;

- study of ;

- study of development of cotton insect pests and a biological field -

use of insecticides ;

- of insects and "beneficials" in cotton and of key to identification of cotton insects.

-

( F u s a r i u m o x y s p o r u m f.

Vasinfectum) S-5

oil is most effective in

disease, but it is not applied i n cotton on a wide would be planting the new F u s a r i u m

macrospora

S-5. been found that a yield of up to 1,000 (seed cotton) may be gained by

applied on a wide

N e m a t o d e

reinformis) is still small but is nematode damage should be taken in account, so

as Some

:

Alternaria Acala, of

of in the soil that cause pathogenic symptoms in cotton.

V -

The cost of is high and the supply is usually

to make a n d t h e know-how

developed have been extended and sucessfully applied by

that field is still needed.

Some of now :

studies aimed at of

the following and some :

-

model ;

- use of

;

- d e v e l o p m e n t of of

;

- studies of

move

;

- use of or

on soil and ;

- studies of of

cotton yield decline, taking conditions ;

- of stalks and and

the. effects on the and yields of cotton ;

- of

by spacing.

- New production methods

a n o p t i m a l s u p p l y of

e l e m e n t s a n d e n o u g h is of t h e be achieved if plant not well-balanced. One of the

is aimed at

now also on

a that was planted

at the end of a yield of 5,000 kglha high cotton yields at the end of

been applied daily by Such a

feasible. The is

units.

- of models

is a dynamic system in which

field changing situations.

lines might be helpful would not be sufficient

possible.

Cotton models, simulating plant ( H e l i o t h i s

developed

a t a t t a i n i n g a of

and so also unable

a n of

objects of which is

management tools that would efficiency.

field a f e w of the

The data, systematically collected s e a s o n , i s

is studied tiy

t o

of up-

collected is passed on to and to

yield would be of

and necessitate changing of

As collected and analyzed is based

on it is no doubt

supplied representative plots, is

to that collected specific fields, and is by no means supposed to

Though models

is still much do o n t h e of models

to come, will be