I was on a school visit introducing myself as I began my workday with a group experiencing science through a local program ...

Price supports for cotton are necessary, so the politicos say, to protect the nation’s host of small farmers. But last week Delaware’s Senator John Williams dug out facts to show that the ...

During a lesson on slavery, her history teacher gave bags of cotton only to Black students. Autumn was then asked to pick and ...

Staff at state-owned companies are being driven out to the countryside to pick cotton despite a pledge by the government to end such abuses, the Moscow-based Ferghana.ru news site reports.

Uzbekistan is one of the few cotton-growing countries that has not mechanized the cotton harvest and continues to rely on manual labor to pick cotton. In 2014, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to ...