On the other hand, soy cultivation does not require the hazardous pesticides used in conventional cotton farming.

After the war, though, the introduction of new fertilizers made cotton farming profitable again in the area.

Poor white farmers, who previously had done little cotton farming, needed cash as well and became sharecroppers.

Its past is rich in cotton farming and brick manufacturing - two products of the area's dark, clay-streaked soil.

Most of the economy is based on cattle ranching and cotton farming.

La Crosse was an agricultural village by 1860, in an area mostly given over to cotton farming at the time.

Main economic acticvity of the town is cotton farming.

For the first time, cotton farming in the Victoria area was profitable.

The idea was to turn a profit in cotton farming for the state, while at the same time enhancing "racial subordination and control."

The sugar cane farming was replaced by the cotton farming.