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The Cotton Kings: Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans (Oxford University Press, 2016). Beckert, Sven (2014). Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-375-71396-5. Beckert, Sven. "Emancipation and empire: Reconstructing the worldwide web of cotton production in the age of the American ...
The Progress of Cotton. Barfoot's series of coloured lithographs of 1840 depicting the cotton manufacturing process. Spinning the Web, Manchester Libraries: Darton. p. 12; Miller, Ian; Wild, Chris (2007). A & G Murray and the Cotton Mills of Ancoats. Lancaster: Oxford Archaeology North. ISBN 978-0-904220-46-9.
Cotton production uses 2.5% of the world's farmland. [31] Half of all textiles produced are made of the fiber. [35] Cotton is a water-intensive crop, requiring 3644 cubic meters of water to grow one ton of fiber, or 347 gallons per pound. [36] Growing cotton requires 25% of insecticides and 10-16% of pesticides of what is used globally every year.
In the Abilene-area, cotton production supplies over 4,000 jobs and continues to be a large stake in the wellbeing of the community. However, for the past two years, cotton producers have taken a ...
The planting season is from September to mid-November, and the crop is harvested between March and June. The cotton bolls are harvested by stripper harvesters and spindle pickers that remove the entire boll from the plant. The cotton boll is the seed pod of the cotton plant; attached to each of the thousands of seeds are fibres about 2.5 cm ...
The main prewar agricultural products of the Confederate States were cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane, with hogs, cattle, grain and vegetable plots. Pre-war agricultural production estimated for the Southern states is as follows (Union states in parentheses for comparison): 1.7 million horses (3.4 million), 800,000 mules (100,000), 2.7 million dairy cows (5 million), 5 million sheep (14 million ...
A cotton ball. Cotton is a significant cash crop. According to the National Cotton Council of America, in 2014, China was the world's largest cotton-producing country with an estimated output of about one hundred million 480-pound bales. [1] A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit.
Organic cotton production in Africa takes place in at least 8 countries. The earliest producer (1990) was the SEKEM organization in Egypt ; the farmers involved later convinced the Egyptian government to convert 400,000 hectares of conventional cotton production to integrated methods, [ 20 ] achieving a 90% reduction in the use of synthetic ...