title: Problems of science in the development of cotton growing in the USSR.
abstract: This article considers the development of cotton growing in the USSR as one of the leading branches of agriculture. The production of raw cotton and the yield of cultivated varieties of cotton reached a high level. Further increase in yield and increase in production of raw cotton are accompanied by the need to resolve a number of problems. In resolving them, a leading role will be played by science. The author enumerates the principal problems to which efforts of scientific-research institutions will have to be addressed.
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods*; D003368:Gossypium / Q000254:growth & development*; D012586:Science; D014586:USSR