cotton industry
Plantation-based textile sector
The cotton industry encompasses the cultivation, processing, and manufacturing of cotton—from growing and harvesting the fiber through ginning, spinning, weaving, and producing finished textiles.
Historically associated with plantation slavery in the American South, the industry drove the Industrial Revolution and remains economically significant in many regions: The cotton industry transformed the rural economy.
- boll weevilBeetle infesting cotton plants
- textile millsFacilities manufacturing woven goods
- sharecroppingFarm rent in produce
- weavingInterlacing strands into fabric
- LancashireNorthwestern English county
spinning jenny · carding · ginning · Jim Crow laws · slavery history · irrigation · industrial revolution · mill towns · plantation economy · labor movements · trade union · looms · hybrid seeds · soil fertility · harvest season · picking · crop rotation · pest management
- plant industriesfloriculture, horticulture, arboriculture, viticulture, forestry
- Rahim Yar KhanIndus River
- fashion industryfashion, fashion design, fashion designers, fashion shows, fashion week
- Central AsiaKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan
- Central GeorgiaMacon, Perry, Forsyth, Cherry Blossom Festival, Byron
- Ellis CountyEnnis, Midlothian, Ferris, Italy, Palmer
cotton industryfood production
Creating consumable provisions
livestock industry · dairy farming · meat production · fruit cultivation · vegetable farming
cotton industrytech industry
Computing and software businesses
service sector · digital economy · software industry · knowledge economy · financial services