Download or read book Cotton in Central America (Classic Reprint) written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cotton in Central America A number of farmers have been weeded out of cotton production by their inability to get new financing or by higher profits in ranching. Most farmers still growing cotton are intent on maintaining high yields and reducing costs. Total costs are around 22 cents per pound for efficient farmers achieving a yield of about 2 bales per acre - Guatemala tends to be lower and Nicaragua higher. Largest increases in operating expenses have been for machinery and labor. Some success has been achieved in lowering insecticide costs. Land prices have declined considerably because of the pessimistic outlook for cotton. 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.