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Cotton vs Jute

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 Jute

Measure Cotton Jute
Season Kharif Kharif
Sowing window May–Jun Mar–May
Days to harvest 160–200 110–140
Spacing 90 × 60 cm 25 × 7 cm
Soil pH 6.0–8.0 6.0–7.5
Water 700–1200 500–750
Temperature °C 21–30 24–35
Seed rate 1.5–2.5 kg (Bt) 5–8 kg
Yield 2–3 t seed cotton 2.5–3 t fibre
Watch for Pink bollworm, whitefly, jassid Stem rot, semilooper

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