In Iran ( Persia ), the history of cotton dates back to the Achaemenid era ( 5th century BC ); however, there are few sources about the planting of cotton in pre-Islamic Iran.

Farmers in unprecedented numbers began planting cash crops such as opium poppy, tobacco, and cotton.

Furthermore, cotton farmers left fields bare over winter months, when winds in the High Plains are highest, and burned the stubble as a means to control weeds prior to planting, thus depriving the soil of organic nutrients and surface vegetation.

Among the factors that may have contributed to pink bollworm resistance to the Cry1Ac protein in Bollgard I in Gujarat are limited refuge planting and early use of unapproved Bt cotton seed, planted prior to GEAC approval of Bollgard I cotton, which may have had lower protein expression levels.

Buttonwillow is also locally known as the cotton country, due to the abundant planting of cotton in the vicinity.

He suggests planting cotton on the fallow land and offers his expertise in that regard.

The scene blends into Moze and Edna plowing and planting cotton.

" Austin remembered that the following spring, his employer insisted on planting cotton in spite of warnings from his wife, his employees, and government agricultural experts:

Their main activity was planting maize, beans, yuca, arracacha, cotton, Agave, tobacco, tomato, pineapple, guava, among others.

Even the CMS joined the effort by launching the Uganda Company ( managed by a former missionary ) to promote cotton planting and to buy and transport the produce.

He also took steps to promote the planting of American cotton near Tehran and Urmia.

So quickly did he develop his prescriptions-from the cold treatment of grain, to the plucking of leaves from cotton plants, to the cluster planting of trees, to unusual fertilizer mixes-that academic biologists did not have time to demonstrate that one technique was valueless or harmful before a new one was adopted.

He worked alongside his mother and stepfather Joe Duty in the fields of California's San Joaquin Valley, planting and harvesting cotton, grapes and other crops.

Unfortunately, cotton planting was largely a failure and only coconut plantations remained.

He was also an attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ; and was involved in cotton planting and in developing an iron mine, the Delmar, in northern Alabama.

Although there was some work involved in planting the seeds, and cultivating or holding out the weeds, the critical labor input for cotton was in the picking.

After American independence, in the early 19th century, the expansion of cotton planting and slavery began to distinguish Southern society and culture more clearly from the rest of the young republic.

The rising price of cotton in the wake of the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) had interested the Polynesia Company in acquiring land in Fiji for planting.

In 1834 his family moved to Greensboro, Alabama, where his father engaged in cotton planting.

It was initiated in 1950 by K. M. Munshi, the then Union Minister for Agriculture and Food to create an enthusiasm in the mind of the populace for the conservation of forests and planting of trees.

New Zealand's first Arbor Day planting was in Greytown in the Wairarapa on 3 July 1890.

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

Commercial planting began in 1930 in British North Borneo ; with the commencement of World War II, the supply from the Philippines was eliminated by the Japanese.

Traditionally, composting was to pile organic materials until the next planting season, at which time the materials would have decayed enough to be ready for use in the soil.

By the middle of the century, the population was bolstered by emigration from the Canary Islands, resettling the northern part of the colony and planting tobacco in the Cibao Valley, and importation of slaves was renewed.

Some workers died, but the loss of life was limited by the modular design of the factory and its earth works, and the planting of trees that directed the blasts upward.

Since 1993, the Eritrean People ’ s Liberation Front army has been involved in tree planting ; the annual average rate of deforestation during 1990 – 2000 was 0. 3 percent.

In March the Orwells moved to St John's Wood in a 7th floor flat at Langford Court, while at Wallington Orwell was " digging for victory " by planting potatoes.

Soliah was accused of planting the bombs in an attempt to avenge the SLA members who had died a year earlier in the standoff with LA police.

It was initially grown in domestic gardens, but commercial planting began in the 1940s.

The hoe was the main tool used to till the land and prepare it for planting ; then it was used for weeding.

As was typical in guerrilla warfare, they were engaged in a campaign of economic sabotage in an attempt to combat the Sandinista government and disrupted shipping by planting underwater mines in Nicaragua's Corinto harbour, an action condemned by the World Court as illegal.

While the period when the name Cabernet Sauvignon became more prevalent over Petite Vidure is not certain, records indicate that the grape was a popular Bordeaux planting in the 18th century Médoc region.

Following several years of strong planting, Syrah was estimated in 2004 to be the world's 7th most grown grape at.

However, the biggest factor in this expansion during the 1990s was a federal government tax subsidy to those planting new vineyards.

The first planting of Syrah in Washington State was done at Red Willow Vineyards in 1986.

One notable soil management technique was intercropping, planting subsistence crops between the rows of cash crops-which demanded of the slaves skilled and experienced observations of growing conditions for efficient land use.

The most notable incident was the infamous Asian Immigrant Massacre, when Macedonian special police forces murdered six Pakistanis and an Indian immigrants afterwards planting weapons, explosive and Islamic literature on the corpses claiming they were Al-Qaida cells which were about to attack US Embassy in Skopje.

Until the latter half of the 20th century, sugarbeet production was highly labor-intensive, as weed control was managed by densely planting the crop, which then had to be manually thinned two or three times with a hoe during the growing season.

Within a short amount of time the head of Tekes intelligence section, Chen Geng, succeeded in planting a large network of moles inside the Investigation Section of the Central Operations Department in Nanjing, which was the center of KMT intelligence.

One common system was the planting of corn ( maize ) and pole beans together.

This work includes planting a large number of trees, and it is feared that this could jeopardise the open nature of the common.

Leek cultivars can be subdivided in several ways, but the most common types are " summer leeks ", intended for harvest in the season when planted, and overwintering leeks, meant to be harvested in the spring of the year following planting.

One of the common control methods for TMV is sanitation, which includes removing infected plants, and washing hands in between each planting.

However, common usage includes certain kinds of shorter-term migrants, such as seasonal farm-workers who travel for short periods to work planting or harvesting farm products.

A quickset hedge is a type of hedge created by planting live hazel or whitethorn ( common hawthorn ) cuttings directly into the earth.

The partnership between the BCP and the BGCPM resulted in the formulation of church planting strategies in order to reach the common goals of both organizations.

In common with many New Towns the Ortons are characterised by extensive landscaping and tree planting.

The most common planting equipment is a waterwheel type transplanter.

This was especially common in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, where players would become angry and bitter when others would try and advance the game ( e. g. planting a bomb at a target location that, if allowed to detonate, would end the game ) and would discourage their team from protecting the bomb so the enemy could defuse it.