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Cotton vs Flax

Both are Fibre. Each axis is a percentile across all 538 crops — 80 means higher than four-fifths of the table. Where an axis is missing, the crop genuinely is not measured that way.

Cotton Flax

Measure Cotton Flax
Season Kharif Rabi
Sowing window May–Jun Oct–Nov
Days to harvest 160–200 110–130
Spacing 90 × 60 cm 20 cm rows
Soil pH 6.0–8.0 5.5–7.0
Water 700–1200 350–500
Temperature °C 21–30 10–25
Seed rate 1.5–2.5 kg (Bt) 80–100 kg
Yield 2–3 t seed cotton 1.5–2.5 t fibre
Watch for Pink bollworm, whitefly, jassid Rust, wilt

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