This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable begins building the settlement, which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born (c 1745) du ...

Increasing import of raw and waste cotton in the last seven months has brought to fore the urgent need for measures to improve cotton productivity in India. Also Read:Allocation for cotton in ...

Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would revolutionize cotton production and create less of a need for ...

In recent years, whiteflies and pink bollworms have wreaked havoc on the cotton crop in North India. Cotton yields are down, as is the area under cotton cultivation — the crop was cultivated in only ...

Fear of cotton balls is also known as sidonglobophobia. Another term for the condition is bambakophobia, from the Greek bambaki, which means "cotton," and phobos, which means deep dread or fear. In ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Genting Plantations Bhd (GenP) has announced that Datuk Indera Lim Keong Hui will assume the role of chief executive effective March 1, transitioning from his position as deputy ...

The trip began with William D. Coleman, a boy who had grown up on a plantation. The landscape looks like many places in the United States. Yellow school buses wend their way through streets with ...