The genetically engineered cotton is designed to help farmers save money by decreasing the need for poisons.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

They say the population increases are related to drops in insecticide use on the cotton crop.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Bt is used as a pesticide to fight cotton bollworms, corn borers and other pests.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

It also involved Bt cotton, a plant genetically engineered to resist that threat.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Then scientists learned how to put a Bt gene into cotton plants.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

She even had the album manufactured to smell like cotton candy.

VOA: special.2010.08.27

The study involved bollworms, a major threat to cotton farmers.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Some choices are made for you,". "I didn't want to be a soldier but I didn't want to pick cotton.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

Today,Fasotex only prints designs on fabric, it does not turn the raw cotton into cloth like it used to.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

The U.S.has agreed to establish a $147 million dollar fund to help cotton farmers in Brazil and other countries improve their production.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

"We have found out that most of our cotton here in eastern North Carolina goes to make jeans,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

(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

In 2002,several African countries joined Brazil and took the United States to the WTO over its cotton subsidies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

(SPEAKING) He goes on to say that with cotton, even if farmers do good work, they will not have anything to show for it.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Mo Sessions is the Chairman, "my great-grandfather, he heard that peanuts were an alternative to cotton."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

So it provides export companies with financial help to lower their prices on everything from grains and soybeans to dairy products and,in this case,cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

She says it takes a lot of fuel to grow and harvest all that cotton.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

U.S.subsidy programs for maize, wheat,and other crops are very similar to the cotton program.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

(SPEAKING) Sanou says that cotton used to be the biggest part of his farm, but now that the price has been dropping, he plants more corn.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

This year,we're going to change our T-shirts and make them from recyclable cotton."

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

Determined to leave the cotton fields of rural Tennessee for the bright lights of Chicago, Koko packed her bags and moved there with her future husband Robert Taylor.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

But David DeGennaro with the Environmental Working Group puts it this way: "It's really kind of ridiculous that American taxpayers are going to be subsidizing Brazilian cotton farmers just so that we can keep on subsidizing our own cotton farmers.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28