Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia[2]) is the sum of techniques, skills, methods

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  1History
  
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    1.1Background
    
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    1.2Early period
    
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    1.320th century
    
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    1.4Recent period
    
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  2Exports
  
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  3Cotton production by state
  
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    3.1Texas
    
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    3.2California
    
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    3.3Arizona
    
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    3.4Mississippi
    
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    3.5Missouri
    
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    3.6Florida
    
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  4See also
  
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  5Footnotes
  
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  6Further reading
  
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  7External links
  

History

Picking cotton in Oklahoma (1897)
Further information: History of agriculture in the United States
Background
Native Americans were observed growing cotton by the Coronado expedition in the early 1540sThis also ushered the slave trade to meet the growing need for labour to grow cotton, a labor-intensive crop and a cash crop of immense economic wor As the chief crop, the southern part of United States prospered thanks to its slavery-dependent economy. Over the centuries, cotton became a staple crop in American agriculture. The cotton farming also subsidized in the country by U.S. government, as a trade policy, specifically to the “corporate agribusiness” almost ruined the economy of people in many underdeveloped countries such as Mali and many other developing countries (in view of low profits in the light of stiff competition from the United States, the workers could hardly make both ends meet to survive with cotton sales).