Cotton

Herbert S. Klein () and Francisco Vidal Luna ()

Chapter Chapter 6 in Brazilian Crops in the Global Market, 2023, pp 131-167 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Today Brazil is the world’s second leading source of cotton, reprising the role it played for a brief time in the early nineteenth century. But this history of its production is a complex one of both growth and stagnation, and includes profound changes in the types of cotton exported and where and how it was produced. It went from being a product of small farmers to one grown primarily on large estates. Our essay explores these changes over time and offers an analysis of how production shifted from the Northeast to the Southeast and ended finally in the Center-West of the country and why it went from a being net importer of cotton to a major exporter in just the past thirty years.

Keywords: Cotton; Textile Industry; Cerrado Production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38589-6_6

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