T-shirt made with organic cotton than one made entirely with ordinary cotton.
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They argued that their subsidies were only one factor among many causing cotton prices to fall, and that cotton was only one heavily subsidised product among many the talks would have to address.
Thanks to these factories, Mississippi County has gone from a completely agricultural economy to one in which cotton, though it still grows here, is balanced by industry.
The emerging label Number:Lab makes a sporty zip-up sweater that's rugby-striped, performance-oriented pima cotton on one side, and a two-tone combination of the same insulated cotton and softer jersey on the other.
In October 1999, PCOM merged with the Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill and the new entity, the Plains Yazoo Cotton Oil Mill (PYCO), markets about one-third of the cotton oil produced in the United States.21 The Plains Cooperative Mill in Lubbock is the world's largest cottonseed oil mill, receiving about 1, 200 tons of seed per day from the region's gins, and churning out the makings for peanut butter, soap, and throw pillows.
West Elm has a cotton stripe one that comes in a terribly au courant citron with a gray edge.
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Or choose a long, generous open-weave woolen scarf or one in wrinkled rough cotton solid or with a muted print.
But in the 1990s, textile makers' losses to low-wage countries turned cotton into one of America's most export-dependent crops, with nearly 80% now consumed abroad.
The recycled cotton is just one of several recycled products used in Ford vehicles.
Burkina Faso and Mali count on cotton for about one-third of their export earnings, and Chad about one-quarter.
Today, you had one of the country's biggest cotton merchants, which is a company called Weil Brothers, say it was getting out of the business altogether because the market has just become too risky.
Tirupur is one of these clusters, specializing in knitted cotton.
He is looking at them as they absently sift sand with their hands, and imagining them as children in cotton hats, pouring sand from one bucket to another as their parents talk over and around them.
One of the most popular tongba spots in the city is the Small Star Restaurant, located on an alley full of shops selling cloth and cotton thread, just off Thahiti Square, one block south of the tourist district, Thamel.
Ms. Blair created a cotton panel embedded with hundreds of orchid vials, one for each rose, to keep them fresh and blooming past Derby Day.
Kneeling on the stone floor as the 12 youngsters sat above him, the 76-year-old Francis poured water from a silver chalice over each foot, dried it with a simple cotton towel and then bent over to kiss each one.
Once the leading cotton-growing county in the United States, it has now become one of the biggest steel-producing counties.
Olam is now the world's top supplier of cashews and sesame seeds, and one of the three largest of peanuts, rice, cocoa, Robusta coffee and cotton.
Often the better environmental decision is not to choose a natural or organic path, as one would expect, but to go synthetic--like choosing polyester clothes over cotton.
In the 1990s China was one of the first countries to approve some genetically modified cash crops, such as cotton and corn, and today China has more acreage devoted to growing GM crops than just about any other country in the world.
In one programme, the central government has encouraged the movement of textile factories to areas where cotton is grown.
If there had been just one puffy trawler, a little tugboat of a cloud, even so much as a cotton ball of vapor against the blue, he would have hoped.
"It's just been one of those annoyances that our bike lot hasn't been fully used yet, " Ms. Cotton said.
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