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 …

This study aims to analyze the competitivity of the cotton production in Brazil and United States of America (USA) in …. Results show that the sustainability of the cotton industry in USA is artificial, and dependent of government support. …, but high costs per hectare. The risk of the culture is high, given the short margins and the sunk costs. In USA, the …

% decline in US cotton production, a 3% rise in world cotton price, and a 26% decline in US cotton net farm income at the end of … from the from the rest of the world. However, US cotton producers' net farm income still declined by 18%. …

We estimate the demand for imported cotton in China and assess the competitiveness of cotton-exporting countries. Given … the assertion that African cotton producers are ill affected by U.S. cotton subsidies, our focus is the price competition …

The recent WTO cotton ruling has led to a paradoxical result for the United States, a result that seems a textbook … considered as prohibited export subsidies. This article analyses and criticizes the tortuous legal path followed by the cotton …

We estimate the demand for imported cotton in China and assess the competitiveness of cotton-exporting countries. Given … the assertion that developing countries are negatively affected by U.S. cotton subsidies, our focus is the price …€™s cotton imports may not fully recover from the temporary spike in global prices. …

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 …