Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Cotton is grown mostly for ibre used in the manufacture of cloths for mankind.In recent years, cotton apparels are being preferred to the synthetic ones due to the increasing the health consciousness among the people.Besides ibre, cotton is also valued for its oil (15-20 per cent) which is used as vegetable oil and cotton seed cake.Cotton seed cake used as cattle feed and can also be used as manure which contains 6.4, 2.9 and 2.2 per cent N, P and K, respectively also it is likely to play a pivotal role in paper, particle board and cardboard industries, With the advanced technology, short ibre or fuzz or lint can now be used to make excellent grade paper like currency paper, linoleum cellophane, rayons, photographic ilms, dynamic and moulded plastics.Cotton provides livelihood to more than 60 million people in India by the way of agriculture, processing and use of cotton in textile.India is one of the largest producers of cotton in the world accounting for about 23.30 per cent of the world cotton production.The lint yield per hectare which is presently 510 kg -1 ha is still lower against the world average yield about 768 kg ha 1 which is 50.59 per cent higher than India average yield [3]. India is the second largest consumers of cotton i.e. about 23 per cent which is 5.8 million MT and world cotton consumption is 25.63 million MT [3].
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4407030539