Amid reports of diminishing returns from cotton crop due to fall in prices and rising production cost despite Bt crops, farmers of Punjab have started leaning towards growing guar crop whose seed could fetch around Rs 23,000 per quintal price. “Cotton crop sowing has come down from about 5.6 lakh hectares to around 5 lakh hectares,” Punjab’s principal secretary of agriculture department Gurinderjit Singh Sandhu told The Times of India.