Area under cotton cultivation reached a peak in 1963 of 3,389 square kilometres.

From 1963 until the end of the 1970s, the area under cotton cultivation averaged 2,750 square kilometres.

By 1983 the area of land under cotton cultivation had dropped by 36% from the average during the 1960s and 1970s.

The village has contents of black soil around it, suitable for cotton cultivation.

This is the earliest evidence of cotton cultivation in the Americas found thus far.

Major Bulloch, a planter, also had land in cotton cultivation.

Plains continued to experience growth fueled by cotton cultivation well into the early twentieth century.

There, land fertility had declined to a point that cotton cultivation had become difficult.

The city is considered to be the heart of cotton ("white gold") cultivation in Tajikistan.

As a result, population more than tripled from 1880 to 1930, and cotton cultivation flourished.