In Lake Village, Arkansas, a grant-aided project to renovate and study Lakeport, the last remaining cotton plantation in the state, has aroused little public interest.
The London Business School grad is the fourth generation of the storied Birla clan, whose roots go back to 1857 in cotton trading in Rajasthan state.
He grew up in Mumbai in a family of traders hailing from Surendranagar, a cotton hub in the neighboring state of Gujarat.
Many are not cognizant of the African designers working for the coveted Italian, French or even American branded lines using African leather and organic cotton, nor is there a realization of the state of the art manufacturing facilities all over the continent.
Just like sugar in Louisiana (see article), cotton keeps a hold on the poorer, rural parts of the state.
That's when Wichita State forgot even how to inbound the ball, turning it over Cotton didn't step onto the court quick enough to receive a return pass.
The string of five straight 3s began when Tekele Cotton spotted up with 6:05 remaining and hit a shot that cut Wichita State's seven-point deficit to four.
Ron Baker and Cotton hit last-minute free throws to secure the second Final Four trip in Wichita State's history.
Some of the abuses have long been obvious: California's farmers suck up 85% of the state's water at subsidised rates and then grow thirsty crops such as cotton in the desert.
Until recently Ram Krishna Khodpe and his four brothers were eking out a meager living cultivating cotton on their 5-acre farm in the semiarid region of Jalgaon in India's western state of Maharashtra.
The problem was worst in the central Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, where some farmers who took large loans to buy new Bt Cotton seeds committed suicide when their yields were so poor that they couldn't repay their debts.
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