COTTON Cotton is a soft fiber that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant . The fiber is most of the time spun into thread and used to make a soft but strong textile. Cotton is a valuable crop because only about 10% of the raw weight is lost in processing. Once natural wax‚ protein‚ and other unnecessary things are removed‚ what’s left is a natural polymer of pure cellulose. Cellulose is the structural component of the cell walls of green plants‚ many forms of algae and the oomycetes. Some
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Bibliography: World Trade Statistics & Analysis World cotton production (million tonnes)‚ by main countries‚ 1980/81 - 2012/13
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or apparel industry is primarily concerned with the production of yarn‚ and cloth and the subsequent design or manufacture of clothing and their distribution. The raw material may be natural‚ or synthetic using products of the chemical industry. Cotton is the world’s most important natural fibre. In the year 2007‚ the global yield was 25 million tons from 35 million hectares cultivated in more than 50 countries.[1] There are five stages[2] Cultivating and Harvesting Preparatory Processes Spinning-
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became obsessed with the bottleneck in cotton production on his employer’s Georgia plantation. In 1793‚ the fledgling mechanic soon found a solution to the problem of cleaning cotton and the separation of the seed from the fiber. After a few months‚ he wrote the now-famous letter to his father in which he described his discovery: “I involuntarily happened to be thinking on the subject [of cleaning cotton] and struck out a plan of a Machine [to remove the cotton seed]…I concluded to relinquish my school
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Life of Cotton‚ it shows the story of cotton in West Texas and Lubbock. This is the largest history of cotton in the United States. Texas produces the largest amount of cotton than other states in United State. It is important to learn the history of cottons because people use those cottons for clothes‚ beds‚ blankets‚ towels‚ and Yarns. Without the cottons‚ we have no clothes to wear. We could have a hard time for sleeping with uncomfortable beds and blankets. Also some of current generations have
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shirts because I own many of them in different colors so I am interested in how they are made. Polos are composed of 100% cotton. I like to wear these shirts mainly because they are comfortable and look good‚ but also because they are easy to maintain. Cotton is machine washable and can also be dried in a standard dryer‚ even though they may shrink if over-dried. Cotton is made up of fibrous cellulose‚ which is a carbohydrate‚ and the molecular makeup is a long chain of glucose molecules. Glucose
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COTTON FACT SHEET PAKISTAN Pakistan has the 26th largest economy in the world with a GDP of USD504.3 billion and a GDP per capita of USD 2‚600. It has a population of approximately 176.2 million people (2008 estimates). OVERVIEW Pakistan is the 4th largest cotton producer and consumer (preceded by China (Mainland)‚ India and the USA). The cotton industry is an integral aspect of the economy. This is also true of the textile sector on which the economy is heavily dependent. As such cotton is a principal
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Cotton Gin In the late 1700’s many people were trying to figure out a way to remove the seeds from cotton because it was very time consuming and “labor was a slow [and] expensive process” (Shectman 65). In the 1740’s the people of India had created a machine called the churka (a sankrit word for a jerking motion) that separated the cotton seeds from the clean fiber. “The cotton was fed through the dual rollers‚ which grabbed the fiber tightly and pinched free the seeds. The seeds were trapped by
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Penguin Random House LLC of New York City published Empire of Cotton‚ written by Harvard University Professor Sven Beckert‚ in 2014. And is vivid and penetrating nonfiction in which the author creates a definitive history of how cotton came to shape the contemporary world‚ global capitalism and political economies. The history of cotton dates back 5‚000 years and was crucial to economies of many ancient civilizations. However‚ Beckert focuses the majority of his attention to our last 250 years. Crossing
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s a Cotton BudCotton Bud Story Once upon a time‚ in a land not that far away‚ a little cotton seed named Bud was on his way to be planted in a large field. He was in a big noisy machine full of lots of other little seeds. It was moving and some of the seeds at the bottom of the pile were falling out the bottom. Then‚ suddenly‚ there was a big bang and smoke filled the dark chamber of the machine. The machine started to pick up speed. What started at a very‚ very slow pace‚ soon became a very
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