it boosted the Texas economy. by becoming one of the leading industries in Texas other than the oil industry. there are still major cotton farms in Texas today. many of which are located in El Paso Texas.
cotton
Because NASA is in Texas.
Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida.
The two industry leaders as of 2003 were Anderson Clayton Corporation of Fresno, California, which is owned by Australia-based Queensland Cotton Holdings Ltd., and Lyford Gin Association of Lyford, Texas.
The three major industries of Texas are cattle, cotton, and lumber. The state annually grosses over 100 billion dollars in international trade market; which is primarily from the cotton industry.
It helps the cattle industry because since texas had alot of plains the cattle were able to survive in texas.
Texas leads the U.S. in cotton production . In 2000, growers produced over 4 million bales, making over $1 billion to the Texas cotton industry. Texas annually produces about 25% of the entire U.S. crop and plants over 6 million acres! That's over 9,000 square miles of cotton fields.In 2009, Texas produced 4.9 million bales of cotton, far outdoing the next closest state of Georgia at 1.8 million bales.
More people came to texas because of the oil
A major cotton state is Texas. Texas produces over half of the United States cotton
Alabama is known as the Cotton State.
Texas can be divided into four main cotton growing regions: South Texas, Blacklands and North Texas, El Paso and Pima, and West Texas, with West Texas growing the most cotton.
In south Texas! (: