Excerpt from World Demand Prospects for Cotton in 1980: With Emphasis on Trade by Less Developed Countries Considerable potential exists in many less developed countries for increased cot ton production through area expansion and yield improvement. However, cotton is usually only one of various crops that could be produced in larger quantities. Adequate plan ning requires insight into two important questions: (1) What are the prospects for cotton as a future earner of foreign exchange? And (2) should resources in the various regions be directed toward expansion of cotton production or into production of other crops? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.