Abstract

                                Before it is proposed to tackle the problem of the present paper of "Cotton Research and Extension in Madras State", it is necessary to give a brief account of what is already achieved in Cotton Research and Extension in the Madras State". In the symposium held last year a review of recent advances in Cotton Breeding Reseach in the Madras State was presented by Kalyanaraman and Santhanam and the progress in Cotton Extension Work was reviewed upto 1952 by Balasubramaniam in the symposium on cotton extension held in the Fifth Conference of Cotton-growing Problems in India by the Indian Central Cotton Committee, Bombay.

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