Assertion: cotton | /r/AtLocation | india
Facets:
value: organically
type: MANNER
value: from non-genetically modified plants
type: OTHER
value: for more than three thousand years
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Cotton has been grown in India for more than three thousand years, by the end of the 16th century BC, cotton had spread to warmer regions in Americas, Africa and Eurasia.
text: Organic cotton is generally defined as cotton that is grown organically in subtropical countries such as India, Turkey, China, and parts of the USA from non-genetically modified plants, and without the use of any synthetic agricultural chemicals such as fertilizers or pesticides aside from the ones allowed by the certified organic labeling.
text: Almost 90% of all the cotton grown in India is now Monsanto’s Bt cotton (10.6 million hectares in 2011).[xix]