# Foreign Governments Work to Stem Falling Cotton Prices

Author: Jim Steadman
Published: 2014-11-18
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U.S. cotton producers are not alone when it comes to wringing hands and worrying about current cotton prices.

According to an article in the *Business Standard*, government officials in India, China and Pakistan are working to put cotton “interventions” – or subsidies – in place to protect their countries’ growers. Together, those three countries produce roughly 60 percent of the world’s cotton.

For more information, [**read the article here**](http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/govts-try-to-stem-falling-cotton-prices-114111800856_1.html).