In two thousand eight, scientists reported on a study of cotton grown in six provinces in northern China.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

It was a low,dull, quick sound like a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

As part of the project, Mister Teie studied recorded calls of cotton-top tamarin monkeys.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The United States navy had blocked southern exports of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Underneath the designs, the fabric itself is imported from Benin, even though Burkina Faso is Africa's largest producer of cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Of the 400,000 tons of cotton it produced last year, far less than one percent actually stayed in the country.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

(SPEAKING) National Union of Cotton Producers Coordinator Leonce Sanon says Burkina Faso has a very weak capacity to turn cotton into fabric.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

That pushes down the global market price of cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Professor Moseley said Malian farmers had planted more sorghum because the price of their cotton, a cash crop,had dropped.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

Knitting is a way of creating clothing by looping together long thin pieces of material such as cotton or wool.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Supporters of one kind of G.M.cotton, for example,note evidence that it can help a plant resist insects and viruses.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

But they also found something else. They say another kind of bug is now attacking the cotton and other crops.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

At the age of sixteen, Lena found work as a dancer at the famous Cotton Club in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

At sixteen,Lena began dancing and singing in the famous Cotton Club in the Harlem area of New York.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The report says the bugs invaded after farmers decreased their use of insecticides by planting Bt cotton.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Today eighty percent of the cropland for soybeans, maize and cotton in the United States is transgenic.

VOA: special.2010.04.27