Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind ... Now Julius Tillery, a Black cotton farmer in North Carolina, is working to turn cotton’s painful story with Black Americans into an ...

The increasing cultivation of crops like sugarcane, rice, and maize in traditional cotton zones is another significant issue. Fertile lands ideal for cotton are being diverted to water-intensive crops ...

Mathias Azonnoudo, a 50-year-old farmer in Benin, was taking a break sitting on a large pile of freshly picked cotton, which ...

But this cotton season both the private cotton buyers and the quasi-public Nyakatonz Cooperative Union are not buying our cotton. There are four ginneries (cotton buyers) that buy Kasese cotton: one ...

It wasn’t that Gray didn’t want to stay in the family business. He’d grown up working alongside his father, Joseph, on a ...

Back when the machines rolled, cotton farmers had money in their pockets and hundreds of residents benefited from employment opportunities. But today, one is welcomed by the sight of rusty ...

“Various contractors in the cotton sector must give farmers a minimum input packages that produce viable yields and move the country out of the current low yield trap. “If yields are ...