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

VOA: special.2010.05.25

And 72 hours by train he found himself on a huge cotton plantation, near Pickensville, Alabama, on the in west central Alabama, on the Mississippi border, at 14-years-old.

在搭乘了七十二小时的火车后,他发现自己身处亚拉巴马的皮肯斯维尔附近,一个巨大的棉花种植园中,在亚拉巴马西部的中心,密西西比的边界,那年他仅仅十四岁

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A number of men, as one historian has written, I think quite effectively, "Mounted from log cabin to mansion" and I quote "On a stairway of cotton bales accumulating slaves as they went."

一些人就像一位历史学家写的那样,我觉得非常犀利,引述一段,"小木屋通往大厦的阶梯正是由,奴隶们用棉花包堆积成的"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The family lived and worked on a cotton farm along the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

On cotton.

靠的就是棉花

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The British textile industry which depended on this cotton was almost dead.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

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

(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

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

About 20 percent of the population depends on cotton farming.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

There are a few efforts to do that. At the Fasotex factory, General Manager Grand is working on getting a new fleet of machines that would begin weaving cloth out of local cotton by next year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

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