Pest Management in Cotton: A Global Perspective
By Graham A Matthews and Thomas A Miller
Contents
Dedications vii
List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Prologue xiii
1. Origins of Cotton 1
Graham Matthews
2. Cotton in the United States of America and Mexico 8
C.T. Allen, Steven M. Brown, Charlie Cahoon, Keith Edmisten, Rogers Leonard, T. Miller, Jane Pierce, Dominic Reisig and Phillip Roberts
3. Cotton Growing in India 30
V.N. Waghmare, M.V. Venugopalan, V.S. Nagrare, S.P. Gawande and D.T. Nagrale
4. Cotton Growing in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar 53
Abid Ali, Zeeshan Ahmed and Zheng Guo
5. Growing Cotton in China 80
Lu Zhaozhi, Li Xueyue, Zhang Wangfeng, Zheng Juyun, Liang Fei, Yang Desong, Tian Jingshan, Gao Guizhen, Wang Juneduo and Abid Ali
6. Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan 101
Bahodir Eshchanov and Shadmon E. Namazov
7. Cotton Growing Along the Nile (Egypt and Sudan) 113
Graham Matthews
8. Cotton in Southern Africa (Zimbabwe, South Africa [Eswatini], Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique and Angola) 129
Graham Matthews and John Tunstall
9. Cotton Growing in East Africa (Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya) 156
Kabissa, Pius Elobu and Anthony Muriith
10. Cotton Growing in West Africa (Mali, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Benin, Togo, Niger, Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana) 185
Germain Ochou Ochou, S.W. Avicor and G.A. Matthews
11. Cotton Growing in Australia 216
Graham Matthews and Paul Grundy
12. Cotton Growing in South America and the Caribbean (Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Colombia and the Caribbean) 225
Simone Silva Vieira and Graham Matthews
13. Cotton Growing Around the Mediterranean (Turkey, Greece, Spain and Israel) 245
Feza Can, Cafer Mart, Berkant Ödemiş and Yaşar Akişcan
14. A Look Forward 264
Graham Matthews
Index 273