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which is why the cotton plant’s fruit is called seed cotton. Picking cotton manually, as is still done in some major ...

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leading to adverse effects on the livelihoods of millions of farmers and a larger number of the poorest of the poor women who are seasonally employed for cotton picking. The cotton industry in ...

Cotton picking has started in Punjab, with experts predicting double the yield from last year, easing farmer concerns amid minimal pest impact. Picking of cotton balls has begun in the semi-arid ...

Evidence shown to the BBC suggests that upwards of half a million Uighur minority workers a year are being marshalled into seasonal cotton picking under conditions that appear to raise a high risk ...

What made cotton so desirable? In the 1790s Americas oldest crops, like tobacco, were depleting farmland and dropping in value. At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ...

Similarly, continuous rains over the past two weeks in Sindh have further delayed cotton picking and it resulted in labour shortages and price slumps. Despite hopes for improvement with the end of ...

With the gin (short for engine), raw cotton could be quickly cleaned; Suddenly cotton became a profitable crop, transforming the southern economy and changing the dynamics of slavery. The first ...