Could Argentina grow cotton

The US used cotton to grow their burgeoning textile industry. Could Argentina do a similar kind of thing.
they already do
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I'm not sure how complete that map is, though. It doesn't show any cotton production in Australia, which is odd because Australia is the third-largest cotton exporter in the world (not third-largest producer, but Australia exports more of its production).
True, but for Argentina the northern part of the county seems realistic
 
The US used cotton to grow their burgeoning textile industry. Could Argentina do a similar kind of thing.

No, because there was no burgeoning textile industry to feed it into. Argentina lacked the capital and excess labor (as well as a generally mechanically-skilled population, to say nothing of political instability and violence that racked the country during the first half of the 19th century) to set up both large-scale plantation agriculture and labor-intensive industry.
 
No, because there was no burgeoning textile industry to feed it into. Argentina lacked the capital and excess labor (as well as a generally mechanically-skilled population, to say nothing of political instability and violence that racked the country during the first half of the 19th century) to set up both large-scale plantation agriculture and labor-intensive industry.
Is important to remember that the north was relatively populated and industrious... in artisany. As soon as buenos aires opened the door to british manufactures and capital the pampa become the sole relevant center of population, the artisans became jobless and were dorced to migrate to Buenos Aires and the northern provinces were sucked dry of resources for british industry by english capital (no exageration, in Chaco a British company turned a province so dence in forest that it used to be called "the impenetrable" into a desert that that nowadays has summer competitions with saudi arabia for hottest place on earth).
 
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