--- title: "Which is the largest cotton growing State in India?" description: "Which is the largest cotton growing State in India?" author: "Rahul Roi" published: 2019-09-02 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72265/which-is-the-largest-cotton-growing-state-in-india category: "agriculture and rural development" tags: ["agriculture", "agricultural revolution"] reading_time: 1 minute --- # Which is the largest cotton growing State in India? The largest cotton [growing](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13068/mobile-apps-and-its-growing-importance-for-today-s-businesses) [State in India](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32236/which-is-the-most-corrupt-state-in-india)... ## Answers ### Answer by Harsh Pandey ![Which is the largest cotton growing State in India?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/1eb6f948-fefa-4c20-bcf4-6b96a65e7744/images/48f8e202-75e4-4f72-a800-59f7b186d33b.jpeg) [**\**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton) [**\**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton) [**Cotton**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton) is a cash crop. It is a member of the Malvaceae family. There are 2 varieties of this in the world. The first is known as indigenous cotton (Gossypium arboretum) and (Ga; herbarium) and the second is known as American cotton (Ga, Hirsutum) and (Barvedens). Cotton is prepared from this, which is called white gold. Cotton plants are multi-year, brood-like trees with a length of 2–7 feet. Cotton is cultivated on approximately 9.4 million hectares of land in India. In each of its hectares, 2 million tonnes of cotton stalks exist as waste. The mention of cotton is found in the Rig Veda which shows that the knowledge of Indians to make cotton from cotton is from ancient times. \ Gujarat is the largest cotton crop grown in India. After this comes the number of Maharashtra, West Bengal etc. In the year 2019, Maharashtra became the highest cotton-growing state. --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/72265/which-is-the-largest-cotton-growing-state-in-india Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.