Thousands of teachers, health workers, and other civil servants have been mobilized to pick cotton across Central Asia, ...

Swedish company H&M, the world's second-largest clothing retailer, is under pressure to cut ties with supplier South Korea-based Daewoo International and others that purchase cotton from Uzbekistan, ...

Founded in 1954, SUPIMA is less than 1% of global cotton production out of California, and supportuing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SIGMA) to regulate water use and preserve resources.

China has accused major apparel brands like Nike, H&M and Zara of selling goods that could be harmful to children, an accusation that comes a few months after the companies faced a wave of backlash in ...

Temperatures in the 80s and 90s are welcomed this week across West Texas and the Texas Panhandle, as growers seek the “open fall” that helps finish the cotton crop. Hot temperatures and a few storms ...

Big cotton is in the harvest cards, according to USDA’s latest report. Low commodity prices for corn, grain sorghum and soybeans pulled in more cotton acreage in 2017, and the numbers are reflected in ...

H&M has been removed by major e-commerce and service apps in China after a Communist Party organization barraged it for a statement expressing “deep concern” over allegations of forced labor in ...

BAKER — To most people, Florida's Panhandle is the land of sugar white sandy beaches and the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico. Thirty miles north on State Road 189, it is a sea of fluffy white cotton ...

H&M Group, Marks & Spencer, Walmart, Target, Bestseller, Gap Inc. and C&A helped Better Cotton develop its latest pro-transparency tool. Three years in the making, the new Better Cotton Platform ...

The cotton harvest is underway in Central Asia again, and in due course citizens in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are being coerced into picking cotton. In the U.S. State Department’s annual Trafficking ...

H&M, Nike and other big Western apparel brands are facing a boycott in China because of the stand they’ve taken against the alleged use of forced labor to produce cotton in the country’s western ...