---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2120"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2120"
heading: "Cotton; investigation of new uses; cooperation with State and other agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2120"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Cotton Research and Promotion"
---

# §2120. Cotton; investigation of new uses; cooperation with State and other agencies


The [Secretary](/usc/7/2116.md?p=a) of Agriculture and the [Secretary](/usc/7/2116.md?p=a) of Commerce are authorized to engage in technical and scientific research in American-grown [cotton](/usc/7/2116.md?p=c) and its byproducts and their present and potential uses, including new and additional commercial and scientific uses for [cotton](/usc/7/2116.md?p=c) and its byproducts, and to diffuse such information among the people of the [United States](/usc/7/2116.md?p=e); and the [Secretary](/usc/7/2116.md?p=a) of Agriculture and the [Secretary](/usc/7/2116.md?p=a) of Commerce or their duly authorized representatives may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), Territory, District, or possession or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or any [person](/usc/7/2116.md?p=b) in carrying out the purposes of this section in the District of Columbia and elsewhere.


## Source credit

(Apr. 12, 1928, ch. 362, 45 Stat. 426.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 423 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section is comprised of act Apr. 12, 1928, ch. 362, and was not enacted as part of the Cotton Research and Promotion Act which comprises this chapter.