MUMBAI (Reuters) - Maharashtra, India's second-biggest cotton producing state, has cut its forecast for output of the fibre by 37 percent from its September outlook as a pest infestation has reduced ...

Cotton, white gold, became the major commodity of the Egyptian economy in the second part of the 19th century. Disaster was to strike in the form of the cotton worm. Dr Yunan Labib Rizq, in part 43 of ...

The moths are here, so the worms won’t be far behind, Arkansas cotton and soybean farmers are being warned. “A major-league moth flight is coming from corn fields and moving into cotton, soybeans and ...

SOME 80000 acres of cotton crop had to be destroyed in Dera Ghazikhan during the current season on the reports of helio commonly known as “American Sundhi” outbreak in many fields in the cotton belt ...