Question

Cotton is a leading vegetable crop and as well as industrial crop

Answer 1

True

• The cotton provides a raw material for the yarn, then it is used to manufacture cotton fabric. Is a type of fiber that forms a protective shell around the cotton seed.

• After a fiber extracted for yarn production, the cotton seeds is used to generate cottonseed oil, which is edible after the refining. Cattle and other livestock eat cottonseed meal, which is the by-product of oil extraction, as cotton seed. Cotton is therefore both an industrial & the vegetable crop.

• Cotton is one of the most important fibers & cash crops in India and plays a dominant role in industrials & agricultural economy of our country.
• It provides a basic raw material (cotton fiber) to cotton textile industries. Cotton in country provides direct livelihood to 6 million farmers and about 40 -50 million people are employed in the cotton trade and its processing.
• Cotton is the soft, fluffy staple. The plant is a shrub.
• The fiber is a most often spun, Current estimates of cotton for world production are about 25 million tonnes.

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Answer 2

Answer:

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in the ball, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of genus Gossypium in mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and it can contain minor percentages of waxes, fats, pectins, and the water. Under natural conditions, the cotton bolls will increase the dispersal of seeds.

The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around world, including Americas, Africa, Egypt and India. The greatest diversity of wild cotton species is found in the Mexico, followed by Australia and Africa. Cotton was independently domesticated in Old and New Worlds.

The fiber is most often spun into yarn or the thread and used to make a soft, breathable, and also the durable textile. The use of cotton for fabric is known to date to prehistoric times; fragments of the cotton fabric dated to the fifth millennium BC have been found in Indus Valley civilization, as well as fabric remnants dated back to the 6000 BC in Peru. Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of cotton gin that lowered cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

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