1794—Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin—a device that made cotton production ... device developed by slaves laboring on the Geor­gia plantation of Catherine Green. Whitney, a lawyer, worked ...

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JAKARTA, March 10 (Reuters) - Indonesian prosecutors on Monday handed over more than 221,000 hectares (546,000 acres) of illegal palm oil plantations seized as part of an on-going corruption probe ...

"Oh it’s easy to go to the rubber and hard to return, / Men leave their corpses, women depart as ghosts." Visitors to a colonial plantation might have heard this sorrowful song drifting above the soft ...

The civic body has earmarked ₹74 crore for these green initiatives, proposing the plantation of various indigenous tree species along roadsides, in open spaces within city limits, and at the ...

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 ...

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 ...