The cotton sector in Mali is facing major challenges to overcome, with low export prices, technical hurdles, and a … poorly performing state-owned cotton ginner. Some reforms, most notably with regard to the setting of the farmgate … that the production process be modernized and the ginner profoundly reformed if cotton is to play a major role in poverty …

excessive and inefficient irrigation practices. In this paper, we survey 619 cotton producers in the region and analyse their …

Following a critical review of the existing quantitative literature on cotton subsidies, a vector autoregression (VAR …) is used to model the effects of US subsidies on the world cotton market from 1965 to 2001. Surprisingly, subsidies are …

Affected by the meteorological disasters and market fluctuations, the growing area, yield and quality of cotton in … of agricultural production, whose enthusiasm for growing cotton and confidence in the cotton market play a significant … role in stabilizing the growing area and improving the quality of cotton. We randomly select the cotton farmers for in …

efficiency levels for a sample of cotton-growing farms in Thessaly, Greece. The empirical results suggest that Greek cotton farm … farm income of cotton farms; Greek cotton farmers could reduce production costs by 20.4%, making more efficient utilization … cotton-growers include the farmer's age and education as well as the farm's land fragmentation and output specialization. …

This study on farmers’ training in environment friendly production practices for cotton crop was conducted in the … efficiency at cotton farms in the study area. Results show better cotton yield and reduction in cost of pesticides and fertilizer …

After providing some background about the importance of cotton as a fibre, this article provides information about the … global relevance of China’s and Australia’s cotton industries and compares the structure and other significant features of … their cotton industries. Attention is given to trends in overall cotton yields and the volume of production of cotton …

cotton farmers were able to cope with this shock given the simultaneous boom in the cotton sector, food crop farmers had to …

After providing information about the global importance of cotton as a textile and China’s and Australia’s contribution … to global cotton production, this paper examines and compares trends in the time-series of cotton production of China and … Australia for the period 1980-2007. In doing so, it takes account of changes in the area planted with cotton and its yield …

nutrient management strategy for cotton. …