Gandam Venkatavva wakes up at 5.30 a.m. each morning. The 50-year-old farmer finishes tasks at home – cooking, cleaning and other chores – from 6-9 a.m. She is in her intercropped cotton fields by ...

Over 50 square kilometers of cotton fields are producing a bountiful harvest season at a town in Toksun county of Turpan, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn ...

Cotton workers, long-standing cogs behind a powerhouse regional industry, hold an esteemed place in local lore. But the realities of life these days in the fields that stretch out throughout this ...

Slavery spread from the seaboard to some of the new western territories and states as new cotton fields were planted, and by 1830 it thrived in more than half the continent. Within 10 years after ...

Cotton workers, long-standing cogs behind a powerhouse regional industry, hold an esteemed place in local lore. But the realities of life these days in the fields that stretch out throughout this ...

We start work in the field at 7 a.m. and work until 7 p.m. They bring us in buses. The temperature exceeds 113°F, but while ...

What made cotton so desirable? In the 1790s Americas oldest crops, like tobacco, were depleting farmland and dropping in value. At the same time, the textile industry in Great Britain was ...

Xinjiang cotton is some of the best fabric in the world. It's also, human rights campaigners say, produced by forced labour. Some Western brands have removed it from their supply chains ...

Global retailers are facing scrutiny over cotton supplies sourced from Xinjiang, a Chinese region plagued by allegations of human rights abuses. China is one of the world's top cotton producers ...