The results indicate a sizeable impact of Bt cotton on the yield and value of output under both irrigated and unirrigated conditions.
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Because of the government subsidy system, US farmers can afford to sell their cotton on the international market at much lower prices.
In 2002 the Americans produced a bumper crop, and are forecast to sell 2.2 million tons of cotton on the international market.
Brazil, also a competing cotton producer, believes that this combination of US agricultural subsidies and over-production has resulted in the dumping of American cotton on the world markets, depressing world prices.
The emerging label Number:Lab makes a sporty zip-up sweater that's rugby-striped, performance-oriented pima cotton on one side, and a two-tone combination of the same insulated cotton and softer jersey on the other.
Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.
There, shacks sit beside rusted cotton gins on the outskirts of town, and once-grand mansions are slowly falling down.
The cotton sheets on your bed are regulated by the Department of Agriculture.
Western farm-support programs and cheap cotton dumped on the world market are impeding efforts to end Africa's cycle of poverty.
Then there is the outer-garment rule, intended to thwart someone somehow hiding contraband in a jacket.. I wore a thin cotton sweater on my flights back from rural Australia.
Unless cotton prices fall, many of the apparel retailers in the U.S. are expected to pass the increased cotton costs on to consumers in the form of higher retail prices.
He calculates that the US spends almost three times as much on subsidies for cotton as it does on aid for the whole of Africa and argues the harm done by unfair trade cancels out any benefits from aid.
So would Africa's cotton producers (which is why a quick deal on cotton subsidies is a good idea).
It all depends on whether products like sugar, soya and cotton are included on the list.
In 2006, the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India evaluated the performance of Bt cotton in India based on a survey of Bt cotton farmers and agricultural data.
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Issufo Nurmamade, the owner of a cotton company called SANAM in the city of Nampula, says he hasn't made a profit on cotton fiber in three years, and his business is only staying afloat because he produces and markets cottonseed oil for the domestic market.
Under today's Hong Kong declaration, rich countries will end export subsidies on cotton next year.
That sounds conciliatory, but the Brazilians are still emphasising that negotiations would have to focus on cotton subsidies.
Burkina Faso and Mali count on cotton for about one-third of their export earnings, and Chad about one-quarter.
The bail-out may not reach those on the verge of desperation, who tend to be bigger farmers taking gambles on cotton crops.
This layer can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
New Delhi (CNN) -- India will end a six-day ban on cotton exports that impacted global commerce, the country's trade minister said Sunday.
New Lanark is an eighteenth century restored cotton mill village on the banks of the River Clyde, close to the Falls of Clyde in Southern Scotland.
There was confusion over India's recent ban on cotton exports when officials appeared to reverse the decision, but then said it would apply to new bales of the fibre.
They built a thin layer, or "nanostructure, " using minute particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material and can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
This led owners to experiment with ways of increasing the pace of labor, Rosenthal explains, such as holding contests with small cash prizes for those who picked the most cotton, and then requiring the winners to pick that much cotton from there on out.
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This spring, the designer offered playful monkeys climbing up the front of cotton dresses, and bright, digitized Navajo patterns on pant sets, cotton sweaters and full-skirted frocks.
Edison tried 1, 600 materials before settling on carbonized cotton fiber as the filament for his electric light bulb.
Mark Short was killed at the Cotton Tree pub, on 25 May last year.
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