Cotton comes from the seed of the cotton plant ... It has short "staples" or fibers, which results in a coarser fabric that is durable and affordable. By contrast, Egyptian and Pima cotton ...

Cotton is an important raw material for producing soft textiles ... Cotton is the soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant and the fibres consist primarily of a natural polymer ...

G. W. Cooper, of Palmyra, Ga., has invented a new machine for planting cotton seed, for whiej he has taken measures to secure a patent The nature 01 the invention consists in the peculiar manner ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders ...

The government is proposing to cut the price of the BT cotton seeds (Bollgard II) from Rs 800 to Rs 740 per packet (450gm packets). While the move would provide some respite to cotton farmers ...

Through Soorty’s partnership in the OCA Seed Commercialization Initiative it is tackling the long-standing challenge of providing access to safe, non-genetically modified organism (GMO) cotton seeds ...

Punjab government has decided to provide a 33% subsidy on Bt cotton hybrid seeds recommended by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian said on ...