101. Fourth Quarter 2004 - Quarterly Survey Of Agricultural Credit cotton crop yields have been excellent. The harvest is delayed by wet The cotton crop is excellent. There have been some harvest delays due to rain, http://www.dallasfed.org/research/agsurvey/2004/ag0404.html

102. A.P. Farmers Burn Monsanto Cotton Crop The genetically improved `Bollgard cotton crop involves usage of seeds containing a bacterium called `Bacillus thuringiensis (BT) which protects the http://www.netlink.de/gen/Zeitung/1998/981203c.htm

A.P. farmers burn Monsanto cotton crop Date: 03-12-1998 :: Pg: 10 :: Col: e HYDERABAD, Dec. 2. Taking a cue from their Karnataka counterparts, farmers in Andhra Pradesh destroyed an experimental field of the controversial `Bollgard' cotton crop raised by the U.S. multinational Monsanto in Warangal district yesterday. About 200 agitated farmers, suspecting application of `Terminator seed technology' in field trials, uprooted the crops spread over 500 square yards in Urugonda village and set it afire, a spokesman of the Federation of A.P. Farmers' Associations said here. The Monsanto, along with its Indian arm Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (Mahyco), is in the eye of a storm over suspected `Terminator seed' technology which involves introduction of a gene that terminates germiability of seeds after one-time usage. It is feared this technology would prove suicidal for Indian farmers as they would be forced into buying seeds from multinational companies for each crop. The genetically improved `Bollgard' cotton crop involves usage of seeds containing a bacterium called `Bacillus thuringiensis' (BT) which protects the cotton from `bollworm,' the most common pest that attacks cotton crops. The seed company contends that this technology would not only obviate the need for applying pesticides but also helps improve yields significantly. As a result, farmers could reap rich profits, it argues. ``The Bollgard cotton seed has nothing to do with the `Terminator' seed technology which is only at a conceptual stage and may take another 10 years for commercial scale development,'' the Monsanto Communications Manager, Ms. Meena Vaidyanathan, said yesterday.

103. Recources | Articles Faced with a raging attack on the cotton crop by Spodoptera litura (tobacco cutworm) and Heliothis armigera (American bollworm), frantic Andhra Pradesh http://www.sustainablecotton.org/html/resources/articles.html

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104. Handbook Of Texas Online: COTTON CULTURE The cotton crop in 1900 was more than 3.5 million bales from 7178915 acres. In 1990, 74 percent of the Texas cotton crop was gathered by strippers and http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/afc3.html

format this article to print COTTON CULTURE. Cotton was first grown in Texas by Spanish missionaries. A report of the missions at San Antonio in 1745 indicates that several thousand pounds of cotton were produced annually, then spun and woven by mission craftsmen. Cotton cultivation was begun by Anglo-American colonists in 1821. In 1849 a census of the cotton production of the state reported 58,073 bales (500 pounds each). In 1852 Texas was in eighth place among the top ten cotton-producing states of the nation. The 1859 census credited Texas with a yield of 431,645 bales. This sharp rise in production in the late 1850s and early 1860s was due at least in part to the removal of Indians, which opened up new areas for cotton production. The Civil War qv caused a decrease in production, but by 1869 the cotton crop was reported as 350,628 bales. The introduction of barbed wire qv in the 1870s and the building of railroads qv further stimulated the industry. In 1879 some 2,178,435 acres produced 805,284 bales. The 1889 census reported 3,934,525 acres producing 1.5 million bales. The cotton crop in 1900 was more than 3.5 million bales from 7,178,915 acres. Increased cotton production led to technological improvements in cotton ginning qv -the process of separating cotton fibers from their seeds, cleaning the fibers, and baling the lint for shipment to market. In 1884 Robert S. Munger

105. BIO 2004 Impact Of Biotechnology To California In California, the 2002 biotech cotton crop in the state was valued at $404 million, In 2003, 39 percent of California s total cotton crop was biotech; http://www.bio.org/events/2004/media/cabio.asp

Newsroom Registration Agenda Sponsors Exhibitors ... Press Conferences CA Biotech Press Kit Conference News (via PR Newswire) Biotech TV (PDF) BIO Annual Report Future Annual Conventions 2005 Philadelphia June 19-22 2006 Chicago April 9-12 2007 Boston May 6-9 2008 San Diego June 18-21 2009 Atlanta May 17-20 Read the press release Impact of Biotechnology to California June 16, 2004 Printer Version Impact of Biotechnology to California San Francisco: The Birthplace of Biotechnology San Francisco and Biotechnology Significant Biotechnology Milestones Biomedical Industry Biotechnology was introduced to South San Francisco in 1976 with the partnership of two industry visionaries: San Francisco biochemist Herbert Boyer and venture capitalist Robert Swanson, who together formed Genentech. In the 1980s, the Bay Area has led significant biotech advances, including: The development of polymerase chain reaction technology (PCR) by Cetus Mapping of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by Chiron Today, the Bay Area continues to be a home to the three elements needed to successfully support the biomedical industry: venture capital, research institutions and technological resources. Biomedical Industry in California In California, more than 2,500 biomedical companies and 87 public and private research institutions are targeting major unmet medical needs such as cardiovascular and respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes, AIDS/HIV and other infectious diseases

106. BIO 2004 Impact Of Biotechnology To California In California, the 2002 biotech cotton crop in the state was valued at $404 About 33 percent of California s total cotton crop was devoted to biotech http://www.bio.org/events/2004/media/cabio.asp?p=yes&

107. ZNet Commentary: On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversi The Bt. cotton crop in Vidarbha has been badly affected by the rootrot disease, a disease of roots. It is believed that this disease is caused due to wrong http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2002-11/30shiva.cfm

USEFUL SUSTAINER LINKS YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION ZNET'S TOP PAGE ZNet DAILY ZINE PAGE COMMENTARY AUTHORS ... SUSTAINER PROGRAM FEEDBACK CUSTOMIZE November 30, 2002 On Pests, Weeds And Terrorists: Weaving Harmony Through Diversity By Vandana Shiva Lack of harmony characterizes our times There is disharmony between humans and nature, between religions, between cultures, between genders. Non-sustainability, injustice, war are different expressions of disharmony which has its roots in a world view that blocks out relationships and essentialises characteristics and properties that are relational properties. Insects become pests in agriculture when monocultures encourage an increase in their populations, and chemical farming and industrial breeding produce plants vulnerable to pests. Pests are a product of a disharmony within plants and in ecosystems. Weaving harmony in agriculture implies bringing back the diversity which creates pest - predator balance and organic methods of breeding and production which produce resilient plants. However, in the dominant paradigm of agriculture, pests are not seen a product of disharmony but as reductionist, essentialised, absolutised undesirable entities which must be exterminated with the most potent and toxic methods. This non-relational absolutised approach aggravates the problem instead of solving it because it deepens the disharmony which creates pests instead of recovering harmony, the only lasting solution for preventing insects from becoming `pests'.

108. Crop Yield For a cotton crop in Crisp county Georgia, both the growth rate and the hand picked yield of cotton cotton crop yield (left) and Remote Sensing (right) http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/precisionag/cropyield.html

Crop Yield If maps of the spatial distribution of soil productivity potential (maps of expected yield) and maps of the spatial distribution of plant nutrients available from the soil are developed for a field, fertilizers and organic wastes can be applied in amounts per acre that are directly proportional to the soil's expected yield and adjusted for the soil's fertility at any location in the field. Such a procedure would optimize the economic potential of a field, yet minimize the leaching of nutrients. The above protocol depends on having a good map of the spatial variation of expected yields for crop fields. Maps of past crop yields for a field could be used for this purpose. However, multiple years of spatial yield Yield (left) vs. Remote Sensing (right) Reds correspond to higher yield, blues and greens to lower yields. data would be needed to overcome variations caused by year to year differences in weather, especially rainfall, and there remains multiple factors which result in lack of year to year correlation. An alternative to mapping of actual crop yields would be to use remote sensing to determine spatial distribution of plant status (health or efficiency) and the corollary expected yields. A major advantage of this approach is that remote sensing can provide a current assessment of the overall plant health of the crop rather than relying on past history of yields.

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