World’s Largest Cotton Producing Countries | Economic Geography
The world cotton-growing and manufacturing industry has traditionally been dominated by the U.S.A. but it has been overtaken in cotton textile production by both the U.S.S.R. and China. Thus although the U.S.A. is still the largest producer of raw cotton because its farming is more efficient it finds it uneconomic to manufacture textiles and finished clothing because imports are cheaper. [...]