HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY OF COTTON

Historical Biography of Cotton



Table of Content

Introduction2

History Of Cotton2

Historical Events4

The Industrial Revolution4

The invention of new spinners and weavers stimulates demand for raw cotton prices soar4

New Producers And New Consumer6

The Brazilian cotton growing but marginalized in the early nineteenth century6

A Method Of Manufacturing Cotton Yarn7

The Consumption Of Cotton Rose Sharply In England8

Cotton Farming8

Organic Fabrics10

Irrigation of Cotton10

Dependence Of Cotton13

Price Of Cotton15

Evolution of imports and exports of cotton fiber15

U.S. Demand Uncertainty16

Marketing Of Cotton At Present16

The Material and Technical Resources17

Production Costs17

Socio-Economic Importance17

Success Factors For The Development Of The Cotton Sector18

Conclusion19

References21

Historical Biography of Cotton

Introduction

Cotton refers to a plant and also to the fibers from the plant. Cotton plants are shrubs in the genus Gossypium, characterized by seed capsules (“bolls”); in some species the seeds are attached to cellulose fibers. The fibers, which may have evolved to help disperse the seeds by attracting nest-building birds, attracted early human interest because they are flat, convoluted and so spinnable into thread.

Cotton is vegetable fiber surrounding the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub of the family Malvaceae (genus Gossypium). This is a natural textile fiber in the same way as wool, silk or linen, these fibers are different from synthetic fibers made ??from petroleum-based polymers (such as acrylic, polyester or polyamide) .

This fiber is usually transformed into yarn and then woven to make fabrics. It has multiple applications in the fields of clothing, furniture and automotive industries. Making is the first use of this material (up to approximately 60% of world production).

History Of Cotton

The first people in Eurasia to grow cotton for clothing and towels and sheets were the Harappan people in India, about 2500 BC. We know because people wrote about cotton in the Rig Veda, and that was written about 600 BC in India. Egyptian farmers also grew a little bit of cotton, but cotton never became very important in Egypt, where people mostly wore linen clothing.

In the 400's BC, a Greek historian, Herodotus, wrote that in India there were "trees growing wild, which produce a kind of wool better than sheep's wool in beauty and quality, which the Indians use for making their clothes" (Book III, and again in Book VII, where Herodotus tells us that Indians fighting in Xerxes' army were dressed in cotton). Around this time, the Ajanta Cave carvings show that cotton growers in India had invented a roller machine to get the seeds out of the cotton.

Soon afterwards in the 500s AD, the Sassanians were certainly growing cotton, at least at the city of Merv in their eastern possessions. The English word for cotton comes from the Arabic “qutun.” The establishment of the Islamic Empire in the late 600s AD gave a big push to cotton production, which spread westward across the Islamic Empire to North Africa and Spain (which also uses the Arabic word for cotton, "algodon"). And the Eastern Roman Empire also started growing cotton, by the 700s or so. In West Asia and northern Africa, poor people began wearing cotton ...