Government Must Pray for a Cotton Crop Failure NEW DELHI, it appears, will need to invoke the wrath of the rain god to ruin the 1986-87 cotton crop to enable the government to extricate the cotton economy from the mess it is in. The developments on the cotton front provide a telling illustration of the government's utter failure to deal effectively with the emerging situation characterised by an alarming demand-supply imbalance. The various measures taken by the government