Word: cottons
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...problem head on. The Ministry of Finance has advised the government to cap borrowing at $200 million per year, and has even suggested that grants be restricted. The country is also breaking free of its dependence on coffee exports, pulling up the beans in favor of flowers, tea, cotton, tobacco and vegetables. The next push, says Director of Economic Affairs Muhakanizi, is to turn raw agriculture products into processed goods. "If you're exporting cotton, you can sell yarn," he says. For many, economic self-sufficiency can't come soon enough. "A return on investment in health and education takes...
...this fairy-tale world, Sam gets a little wild as she celebrates her new freedom with James by eating cotton candy in an amusement park unchaperoned, sliding down a waterslide with her clothes on and spending a date in a rowboat, holding a pink parasol as he holds a small fishing rod. There is one particularly moving scene where Sam eats a slice of pizza and, as the grease slides down her throat, remarks that it “tastes like freedom”—at which point I teared up, remembering my own first taste of delicious...
...INDICATORS Sweet Victory A preliminary ruling by the World Trade Organization has outlawed E.U. sugar subsidies. The decision marked Brazil's second successful complaint in as many months, after the WTO prohibited U.S. cotton subsidies in June...
...droughts every year, as devastating surges down the Yangtze River cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, while deforestation turns farmland north of Beijing into desert. In Uzbekistan, the Soviets created one of the world's worst environmental disasters by using the Amu Darya to irrigate massive cotton farms, shrinking the Aral Sea by half and, as pesticide run-off evaporated and poisoned the air, creating a cancer cluster the size of England. Meanwhile, China's plans to build a series of dams across the upper reaches of the Mekong are expected to halve water flow on the river...
...below normal. In Vidarbha region in central India, only 10% of the land is irrigated, despite continual pleas from farmers for the local government to provide a more comprehensive watering system. Farmers' federation leader Vijay Jawandhia estimates that up to 40% of Vidarbha's soybean and cotton crop is already lost. With 22% of India's GDP coming from agriculture, chief economist Subir Gokarn at ratings agency Crisil predicts that crop losses will cut the country's growth rate from 8.2% last year to no more than 5.75% this year. But given that three-quarters of India's 1 billion...