Perhaps no other natural product has influenced the destiny of men as has cotton. It has clothed nations, enslaved men, monopolized labor, and given direction to entire industries. The first historical mention of cotton was in the writings of the Greek...

Four species of cotton are grown for commercial fiber (lint) production. Gossypium arboreum L. and Gossypium herbaceum L. are grown in Africa and Asia. These produce lint of inferior quality. Gossypium barbadense is grown commercially in limited parts...

Cotton is a soft, staple fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant (Gossypium sp.), a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, India, and Africa. However, virtually all of the commercial...

Bumper Crop With Smooth Production in China With the approaching harvest season, a heavy crop is definite and there is every prospect for cotton production to reach a historic high exceeding 100 million bales. As a result, the cotton market is "top-heavyc ...

Still waiting for a better life But Central Asia's economies still have a long way to go EVERY year, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers from Kirgizstan and Tajikistan make their way to richer Kazakhstan and Russia to find jobs in...

Elliot Colvin usually plants most of his 1,800 acres in cotton. But not this year.With corn prices up and cotton at break-even levels, the northeastern Louisiana farmer considers corn his best bet and for the first time in more than a decade will plant no...

Growing cotton has rarely been a more risky proposition than it is now, which is precisely why cotton farmer Frank Williams is planning to sow his fields with wheat.From Williams' California fields to the Texas plains, farmers are plowing under cotton — once the king...