Turkish startup Afara has developed a fully electric cotton-picking robot that could up farm production by 20%. According to the company, conventional self-propelled cotton harvesters leave 5-20% ...

Ours is a three-fingered version designed for delicate and efficient cotton picking. It draws inspiration from nature, mimicking the hunting prowess of a lizard. Each finger is a 3D-printed structure ...

The report stated that “The evidence shows that in 2018, three Uyghur regions alone mobilized at least 570,000 persons into cotton-picking operations through the government’s coercive labor ...

This came partially as a response to the international pressure regarding the use of mobilized labor in cotton picking. Under Uzbekistan’s state-order system it is compulsory for many farmers to grow ...

Within a few years, Casa Grande farm’s sales of livestock and crops were covering its operating costs, and the people who lived there were earning a steady wage. Yet, in 1944 Casa Grande’s farmers ...

leading to adverse effects on the livelihoods of millions of farmers and a larger number of the poorest of the poor women who are seasonally employed for cotton picking. The cotton industry in ...

As the spring weather continues to be changing weekly from sunshine to days of rain and then this morning, we had a light ...

Cotton growers in the southern valleys are reporting yields that are double or up to three times higher than last year.

REELING from 150 blows with a wooden paddle, 10-year-old Justin Miller felt blood trickle down his leg and turned to his mum ...

Concert Chats with Alejandro Gómez Guillén; 11 a.m. May 1, Bloomington Country Club, 605 Towanda Ave., Bloomington; $30 per ...

Clarke will discuss her work "A Black Woman's Journey From Cotton Picking to College Professor: Lessons About Race, Class and Gender in America" from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday on the second floor ...