Cotton has been used for fiber over the past 7,000 years. Presently, it accounts for nearly 40 percent of all clothing fiber used worldwide. The cotton industry is a vast enterprise network across the globe. Farm production of it alone involves more than 20 million farmers in some 80 countries. If the plant has been [...]

Over the years, Goldman Sachs has declared that the emerging nations like Brazil, Russia, India and China. (BRIC) will be the economic powerhouses in future. Citigroup too has declared the increasing influence of China and India in the rest of the world with their increasing prosperity.
However, this economic prosperity has not actually trickled down the [...]

Malnutrition is described as a state of lack of food, characterized by an insufficient food intake to fill the needs for the daily energy expenditure of an individual. This condition leads to nutritional deficiencies. If allowed to be prolonged, this condition causes irreversible damage and, ultimately, death. The term which refers to an inadequate dietary [...]