Collocations withcotton
These are words often used in combination withcotton.
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cotton belt
For example, significant fractions of the electorate in the southern cotton belt supported tariff protection in areas that could only have been harmed by trade barriers on manufactured goods.
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cotton boll
Low light intensity and cotton boll shedding.
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cotton cloth
For cotton cloth, we combined two approaches to get the terminal year forecast.
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cotton farm
The average cotton farm in the 1940s was about 320 ha, but by the 1970s the average size had increased to 600-800 ha, a trend that continues17,38.
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cotton farmer
The cotton farmer is generally a smallholder and family head.
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cotton farming
This, in turn, increases the cost of farming because reclamation is necessary for continuous cotton farming.
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cotton grower
All the breeding sites were managed in accordance with these recommendations which are widely adopted by the cotton growers.
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cotton industry
Roberts is the only author to discuss the organization of the handicraft cotton industry.
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cotton merchant
If one is a cotton merchant, one makes profits by supplying cotton, and profit is a very strong stimulus.
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cotton picker
The separations between plots were rounded to one decimal place and range from 0.1 m to 3 m as the speed of the cotton picker changes.
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cotton plant
Insects and mites injurious to the cotton plant.
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cotton plantation
Once again, he returned to the family cotton plantation.
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cotton production
The mechanization of cotton production increased the cost of machinery and farm operating overhead.
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cotton shirt
An icy wind blows through your cotton shirt while you sit outside the hospital door, waiting for your wife to bring up the car.
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cotton swab
A cotton swab is gently insinuated into the base of each sulcus, breaking all arachnoid adhesions.
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cotton thread
Household 1 women evidently made their own cotton thread and may also have exchanged some of that thread for items from other households.
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cotton yield
Priming did not affect yield in maize, but there was a significant adverse effect on cotton yield in one season.
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organic cotton
Preliminary studies show yield and quality potential of organic cotton.
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raw cotton
Imports of raw cotton only gradually took up the slack-and then only in quite erratic fashion.
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white cotton
The younger woman on the right wears a plain white cotton sari over a pink bodice.
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woven cotton
The hypothesized textiles of woven cotton apparently covered the heads and torsos of all three individuals.
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