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Cotton production shrinks in US

17/11/2015

US farmers this year planted the fewest acres of cotton since 1983, according to the US Department of Agriculture, quoted by Reuters. US cotton farmers are getting by without a subsidy programme that had long been the subject of a trade dispute between Washington and Brazil, and for which Washington paid $300 million to settle in 2013. The price ...

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