Swaying green cotton fields in Gokwe and Guruve as far as the eye can see is a clear testament to the country’s rich ...

Now, researchers hope they have an answer — one that means cotton fields can take a break, without taking a break. Farmers often plant a break crop in between their main crops to return ...

Cotton can thrive in heat and, indeed, needs those warm days to produce its fruit, the lint bolls usually spotted in fields during the ... into the soil beneath the plant. Drawing the deep ...

My family lived in a row house, one of several rented out to people who had earlier worked hoeing the weeds that seemed to grow much faster in the fields than did the cotton plants. We lived in an ...