Question

write the short notes on cotton and jute
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Answer 1

Cotton:

• Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

• The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor percentages of waxes, fats, pectins, and water.

• India world's largest producer of cotton. Current estimates for world production are about 25 million tonnes or 110 million bales annually, accounting for 2.5% of the world's arable land.

Uses of Cotton:

• Woven fabrics
• Clothing
• Bed sheets and towels
• Cottonseed oil.

Jute:

• Jute is a long, soft, shiny bast fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. It is produced from flowering plants in the genus Corchorus which is in the mallow family Malvaceae.
• Jute is one of the most affordable natural fibers, and the second only to cotton in the amount produced and variety of uses.
• Jute fibers are composed primarily of the plant materials cellulose and lignin.
• Jute is the name of the plant or fiber used to make burlap, hessian or gunny cloth.

Uses of jute:

• It is used to make cloth for wrapping bales of raw cotton, and make sacks and coarse cloth.
• The fibers are also woven into curtains, chair coverings, carpets, area rugs.