In 2002, the government of India allowed Monsanto to start selling Bt cotton to farmers in India.
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Every major crop around the globe is being stunted, from rice to wheat to cotton to soybeans.
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It can be embedded into product labels, or sprayed on to cotton to mark its country of origin.
Britain's economy doubled in size in the 32 years from 1830 to 1862 as increased productivity spread from cotton to other industries.
This layer can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
Consider the source of the suit: Walzel Jewelers, an authorized Rolex dealer in Houston that doesn't cotton to cut-rate competition on the web.
He advocates that people put their money in real assets ranging from cotton to natural gas, because currencies backed by government are being debased.
Fortuna capped another flurry with a left that left Zamudio unconscious on the canvas, prompting referee Eddie Cotton to stop the fight at 1:08 without a count.
In effect, we have taught the cotton to spin itself.
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Even the return of Henry Cotton to the Great Britain side was not enough to prevent the Americans from winning the Ryder Cup on British soil for the first time.
Because hemp requires much less irrigation, and around half as much land as cotton to produce the same amount of textile, supporters of legalisation say it is much more environmentally friendly.
They built a thin layer, or "nanostructure, " using minute particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material and can be coated on cotton to keep the fabric clean.
No one is proposing that Moscow have the power to set food prices in Kyrgyzstan, dictate wages for oil workers in Kazakhstan, tell Uzbekistan how much cotton to produce, or prevent people from moving from Armenia to Belarus.
If these deals fail to attract shoppers and stores are forced to offer further price cuts, it could cut into profit margins, particularly as retailers have been facing rising costs of materials from cotton to gold, retail experts said.
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Though the bing tuan is China's most efficient grower of cotton, thanks largely to its use of plastic strips (a Japanese invention) laid over the cotton seedlings to conserve moisture, it employs over 300, 000 workers for the harvest.
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.
This is a tension which, apart from occasional spasms such as 19th-century British abolitionism (which, interestingly, did not prevent Britain from supporting the Confederacy to keep the cotton flowing to the mills of Lancashire), not only is absent from other nations, but elicits cynical laughter from them.
The global shortage of cotton led to a speculation that the cotton prices would rise further resulting in hoarding by traders creating an artificial short-supply and driving the prices up in the futures market.
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Indeed, Kozmo is frantically trying to ditch its college-student customers, who last year made up 76% of its business, in pursuit of those who will pay a premium to have thousands of items, from DVD players to cotton swabs, delivered to their doorsteps in an hour.
His first act as party president was to replace the desk in his new office with a set of cotton mattresses to conform with the century-old Congress tradition of holding meetings on the floor.
The samples could come from the personal items of the missing -- from toothbrushes and hairbrushes to used Kleenex or cigarette butts -- or by using a cotton swab to rub the inside of a survivor's cheek.
Overall, the attention to detail was conspicuous, from the feather-filled duvets and gossamer cotton sheets to heavy oak hangers in the spacious walk-in closet.
Unless cotton prices fall, many of the apparel retailers in the U.S. are expected to pass the increased cotton costs on to consumers in the form of higher retail prices.
Bt cotton, named after a tiny bug, Bacillus thuringiensis, whose insect-fighting properties have been transferred (to several crops besides cotton) not to sell more herbicide, Roundup or any other, but to require less pesticide.
Unique mastery of the craft is passed to young girls through years of informal exposure and then formal instruction by their mother or grandmother in applying cotton thread to linen.
Fortuny would bring his print-and-stencil technique to cotton yardage as well, to be used for interior decoration.
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The dispute is related to cotton, so it is unsurprising that Brazil has reserved the stiffest tariff rises for cotton products, lifting them to 100% from current rates of 6%-35%.
This led the government to restrict the cotton exports, in order to safeguard the domestic supplies of cotton.
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Leave the linen, seersucker and cotton suits to the older, established professionals in your firm.
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