Cotton growers have also shown an astounding ability to coax value out of cotton production by throwing nothing away and finding somebody, anybody, to eat it or buy it.
Beekeepers, meantime, are shaking out their white cotton coveralls, netted veils and gauntlet-style gloves.
The costumed protesters walked around with paper and cotton sticking out of their ears.
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Born in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, Chen started out working in the family cotton business in Shanghai before moving to Hong Kong in 1949.
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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.
Cotton has already lost out to synthetics in diapers, food service napkins, feminine hygiene products and facial wipes.
He went out every day to basically chop cotton and pick coffee for the plantation owner where he lived.
Preferring the comfort of her knobby-kneed cotton pants, stretched out from sitting day-after-day at her computer, she accents her dark palette with tiger-print bedroom slippers.
But growers complain that they're barely making a living from their crops, and in recent years, several large cotton companies have gone out of business.
Buff or saline-white desert dragged out between fields of sugarcane and cotton, mango orchards and clover and wheat, soaked daily by the tube wells that Nawabdin Electrician tended.
This led owners to experiment with ways of increasing the pace of labor, Rosenthal explains, such as holding contests with small cash prizes for those who picked the most cotton, and then requiring the winners to pick that much cotton from there on out.
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The rest it sucks into its system through contracts made with other diamond producers, and by dispatching its buyers, whose clipped British accents and pressed cotton shirts mark them out as the sort who might otherwise be employed by Her Majesty's secret service, to vacuum up diamonds that seep onto the market in such places as Angola and Congo-Kinshasa.
Within days of our arrival, a turbaned craftsman had laid out a piece of local fabric with cotton shirts, wooden souvenirs and Tuareg silver knives.
Out of the 22, 000 pounds of raw cotton that leave Nelson's farm in the module truck, only about 5, 300 pounds is the white lint that will be turned into T-shirts.
It grew partly out of a 1905 scandal in which traders obtained confidential cotton-crop estimates.
Lucky for you Ermenegildo Zegna came out with several of them this season in a silk-cotton blend, giving them that relaxed yet still sharp look.
Above that perched a glassed-in belvedere, unbearably hot, where he could look out over long flat plots of woods that had once been cotton fields.
To get even more color on her market, Jarecki posted research surveys at her company's site and inserted them into the dye packaging. (Buyers who filled them out received a free "My Betty Is Ready" black cotton T-shirt.) About 1, 000 responses told a surprising story: Less than 5% of her customer base came from the 18- to 25-year-old demographic, and half lived in non-urban zones like Nebraska, Washington and Arkansas.
"We did a lot of things wrong, but when it was time to do something right, we did, " Cooley said, referring to Cotton and Kris Dunn's ability to sink two out of four free throws in the final 36 seconds.
Digital technology has already rocked the media and retailing industries, just as cotton mills crushed hand looms and the Model T put farriers out of work.
But some poorer countries, such as India (which is just harvesting its first crop of genetically modified cotton), are worried that their farmers will be shut out of European markets because they will not have the means to comply.
In recent months, American and Chinese negotiators have also ironed out spats over soyabeans, America's biggest export to China, and cotton.
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Consumers are recovering slowly from the recession, as unemployment claims begin to show a reduction in Americans out of work, suggesting that price increases at retailers that feel the effects of higher cotton prices may not be immediately absorbed by shoppers.
As the news of the ban came out Australia's agriculture minister had just launched a report predicting that Australia would double its cotton exports between 2010 and 2013.
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.
In America, the taxpayers continue to pay excessive amounts out of their dwindling real incomes for energy, food, and other traded commodities (copper, cotton, coffee, livestock, cocoa, etc.) so that the Wall Street banks (yes, the very ones that the taxpayers saved only 2.5 years ago) can show record profits and pay record bonuses!
Studies carried out in Tanzania, where the researchers covered 20% of surfaces where mosquitoes rest with fungus-covered cotton sheets, led to a drop in malaria transmission of 76%.
The bail-out may not reach those on the verge of desperation, who tend to be bigger farmers taking gambles on cotton crops.
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