### Question
How does the law define cotton-producing State?


### Answer
Under *7 U.S.C. § 2116*, **cotton-producing State** is defined as:

> any State in which the average annual production of cotton during the five years 1960–1964 was twenty thousand bales or more, except that any State producing cotton whose production during such period was less than such amount shall under regulations prescribed by the Secretary be combined with another State or States producing cotton in such manner that such average annual production of such combination of States totaled twenty thousand bales or more, and the term “cotton-producing State” shall include any such combination of States

#### Citation:
  - *7 U.S.C. § 2116*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 53-COTTON RESEARCH AND PROMOTION**

