GROWTH MONITORING
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13903688Keywords:
Cotton, Growth rate, NAWF, nodes, flower.Abstract
Cotton plant is an excellent teacher, if you can translate its language”. When agronomists and farmers can learn this “language”, they get the most valuable tool, a very useful input, to obtain a sustainable and more efficient production, and specially, more predictable. Cotton management concept involves different aspects such as weed and insect control, plant growth monitoring, use of PGR’s and harvest aids. In this circumstance focus will be directed to the measuring techniques required for the success of the crop according its growth stages. In this paper, the most relevant or easiest indexes will be mentioned, only for time and space reasons, we exclude other existing, also important
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