### Question
What is the definition of cotton-producing State?


### Answer
The definition of **cotton-producing State** is as follows in *7 U.S.C. § 2116*:

> 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

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

