cottony

cotton | American Dictionary

cotton
noun[ U ]
us/ˈkɑt·ən/
thread or cloth made from the fiber surrounding the seeds of a tall plant, or these fibers themselves:
a cotton shirt/dress

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The cotton-manufacturing industry fulfilled different roles in each town, and consequently had a different impact on each political environment.
Future roles of for mal and far mer breeders in the participatory cotton breeding program.
Imports of raw cotton only gradually took up the slack-and then only in quite erratic fashion.
Cotton, wheat, and tobacco farmers confronted an uncertain economic environment and were willing to accept restrictions on production in exchange for high, guaranteed prices.
Thus, they may have been used to spin the same types of material, like cotton, as the bead-shaped whorls, although, perhaps, with a looser twist.
However, it is less likely to benefit crops such as sunflower and cotton that have been shown to be as attractive to ovipositing females.
Positive significant shares of soybeans, sugarcane, tobacco, cotton, and fruits18 suggest higher pesticide usage on most of the major cash crops for export.
Export crops are cotton, sisal, coffee, tea, tobacco, and pyrethrum.
The most important genetically engineered crops that have been introduced contained genes encoding insect resistance and herbicide tolerance; they were soybean, maize, cotton and canola.
Part of the cotton cloth consisted of fine muslin, which earned high piece rates around that time.
Men were responsible for agricultural production including cotton, and women assisted in planting and harvesting.
Household 1 women evidently made their own cotton thread and may also have exchanged some of that thread for items from other households.
In addition, the interviewers were trained for 2 days and conducted a pilot study on three cotton producers who were not included in the sample.
In contrast to the cotton and maize producers, the millet producers are evenly distributed between districts.
Cotton producers and private industries are in conflict for the global sector's profit repartition.
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cotton

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cotton belt
For example, significant fractions of the electorate in the southern cottonbelt supported tariff protection in areas that could only have been harmed by trade barriers on manufactured goods.
cotton boll
Low light intensity and cottonboll shedding.
cotton cloth
For cottoncloth, we combined two approaches to get the terminal year forecast.
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