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Record W4412846898 · doi:10.5376/cgg.2025.16.0009

Best Practices for Sustainable Cotton Farming Systems

2025· article· en· W4412846898 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Kaiwen Liang

Bibliographic record

VenueCotton Genomics and Genetics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicResearch in Cotton Cultivation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSustainable agricultureIntegrated farmingBusinessAgricultureAgroforestryAgricultural scienceAgricultural engineeringEnvironmental scienceGeographyEngineering

Abstract

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Cotton is a major fiber crop in the world and plays an important role in the agricultural economy. However, conventional cotton production faces sustainability challenges such as excessive use of pesticides, water waste and soil degradation. This study focuses on "Best Practices in Sustainable Cotton Cultivation Systems", reviews the current background and problems of global cotton production, explores agronomic practices, socioeconomic strategies, technological innovations and policy support mechanisms to achieve sustainable development, and analyzes the practical effects based on a case study in Gujarat, India. The study found that agronomic practices such as integrated pest management, soil health maintenance and water-saving irrigation can effectively reduce chemical inputs and maintain or increase yields; strengthening cotton farmer training, ensuring labor equity and expanding market channels can improve cotton farmers' livelihoods and enhance the industry's risk resistance; the application of precision agriculture, biotechnology and digital platforms is improving cotton production efficiency and environmental performance; and policy support such as certification standards, government subsidies and R&D investment is crucial for the large-scale promotion of sustainable cotton practices. Based on real data from case studies, we summarize the successful experience of sustainable cotton cultivation and make recommendations for future expansion, strengthening climate adaptability and deepening international cooperation. The research aims to provide scientific basis for major cotton producing countries and relevant stakeholders, and to help the green transformation and sustainable development of the global cotton industry.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.049

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.005
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0030.006
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.066
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.264 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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