They say the population increases are related to drops in insecticide use on the cotton crop.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The family lived and worked on a cotton farm along the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

The British textile industry which depended on this cotton was almost dead.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Today,Fasotex only prints designs on fabric, it does not turn the raw cotton into cloth like it used to.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

(SPEAKING) He goes on to say that with cotton, even if farmers do good work, they will not have anything to show for it.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

So it provides export companies with financial help to lower their prices on everything from grains and soybeans to dairy products and,in this case,cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

About 20 percent of the population depends on cotton farming.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

There are a few efforts to do that. At the Fasotex factory, General Manager Grand is working on getting a new fleet of machines that would begin weaving cloth out of local cotton by next year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

But David DeGennaro with the Environmental Working Group puts it this way: "It's really kind of ridiculous that American taxpayers are going to be subsidizing Brazilian cotton farmers just so that we can keep on subsidizing our own cotton farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28