Considering crop prospects dwindle by the day ... the drought is doing major damage to the infrastructure in these small towns. “These cotton gins, we don’t have insurance, we don’t have ...

She also plants a small plot of cotton and keeps the crop up until mid- or late March, way past harvest time, until the lint hangs from sticks like a torn-up pillow, giving visitors a souvenir to ...

Non-government organisation Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF) has successfully concluded a €2.8m ($3.1m) project aimed at ...

Cotton loves hot weather, but when temperatures get extreme, the crop often goes on strike ... Quite often, plants will abort flowers, squares or small bolls. Occasionally, locks in the bolls ...

Even though cotton production is off to a very late and wet beginning across the Southeast and Mid-South, much of the ...

New research reveals that cotton leafroll dwarf virus has been present in U.S. fields since at least 2006 -- well before its ...

Khokhar said that currently cotton crop is at the fruit-opening stage therefore ... food formation process in plants and may cause small balls to fall. Pest/viral attacks are expected in cotton ...