Beginning as a self-help program in the mid-1960s, the Cotton Research and Promotion Program (CRPP) was organized by U.S. cotton producers in response to cotton's steady decline in market share. At that time, producers voted to set up a per-bale assessment system to fund the program, with built-in safeguards to protect their investments. With the passage of the Cotton Research and Promotion Act of 1966, the program joined forces and began battling synthetic competitors and re-establishing markets for cotton. Today, the success of this program has made cotton the best-selling fiber in the U.S. and one of the best-selling fibers in the world.[citation needed]
What prompted a help program produced by cotton producers in the 1960s? What law was passed in 1966 to aid cotton producers? What type of competitors does the 1966 act help combat? Where has the Cotton Research and Promotion Act made cotton the best selling fiber? What did producers of cotton have to re-establish after the market declined?