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This document discusses the cotton cultivation process. It describes that cotton fibers are collected from cotton plants and are soft, breathable fibers that can absorb water. Four commercially grown species of cotton are listed. Cotton is cultivated to make clothes, towels, sheets and other textiles from its long fibers. Its short fibers and seeds are also useful. The cultivation process involves soaking seeds, germination over 5-10 days, development of leaves and roots over 2-4 weeks, flowering buds appearing at 5-7 weeks, bolls forming and filling with cellulose over 25 weeks, and harvesting either by machine or by hand. In Bangladesh, the American cotton variety and Comilla cotton variety are grown.

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This document discusses the cotton cultivation process. It describes that cotton fibers are collected from cotton plants and are soft, breathable fibers that can absorb water. Four commercially grown species of cotton are listed. Cotton is cultivated to make clothes, towels, sheets and other textiles from its long fibers. Its short fibers and seeds are also useful. The cultivation process involves soaking seeds, germination over 5-10 days, development of leaves and roots over 2-4 weeks, flowering buds appearing at 5-7 weeks, bolls forming and filling with cellulose over 25 weeks, and harvesting either by machine or by hand. In Bangladesh, the American cotton variety and Comilla cotton variety are grown.

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          ASSIGNMENT
 TEXTILE RAW MATERIAL -1  
  TOPIC:- COTTON CULTIVATION PROCESS

MD. MAINUR RAHMAN


DEPARTMENT OF TEXTAIL ENGINEERING
Student ID: BTE02506693
BTE 25 Batch
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Summer 21.
COTTON
Cotton fibers are natural fibers, collected from trees. They are called
hollow fibers. Cotton is soft, cool and absorbent. Cottons are known as
breathable fiber. These fibers can hold water 24-27 times their own
weight. Cotton is strong and dye absorbent. They can stand up against
excessive pressure and temperature. Cotton is comfortable.

Four commercially grown species of cotton are,

Gossypium hirsutum, Gossypium barbadense, Gossypium arboretum,


Gossypium herbaceum.

USES OF COTTON
Cotton is a plant. It is cultivated for multiple purposes. Long cotton
fibers are used to make thread, yarn, clothes, carpets, sheets, towels
etc. The short cotton fibers are used to make paper. Cotton made
clothes are comfortable.

Cotton seeds are also useful. They are used to make cottonseed oil and
margarine. Crushed remains of cotton seeds can be used as high-
protein diet for cattle or other animals.

COTTON CULTIVATION
• 1. Sowing: Sowing of cotton is done from April to May. Before sowing
seeds of cotton are soaked in water for about 9 to 15 hours.
• 2. Germination: After the seeds planted it takes around 5-10 days to
germinate.

• 3. Seedling: After germination the initial leave will help the roots to
develop. After this more leave appear. This Will take 2-4 weeks.

• 4. Square: Flower buds called squares will appear on plant within 5-7
weeks.

• 5. Boll: Boll begins to appear after germination. After the boll stops
growing, it will fill with cellulose.

• 6. Mature plant: After the cellulose has filled the boll, the boll bursts
open and cotton spill out. After 25 weeks cotton is ready to harvest.

COTTON HARVESTING
Most cotton in the developed countries is harvested mechanically,
either by a cotton picker, a machine that removes the cotton from the
boll without damaging cotton plant. Some time cotton harvested by
cotton strippers which strips the entire boll off the plant. Cotton
stripers are used in regions where it is too windy to grow picker
varieties of cotton and usually after application of a chemical defoliant
or the natural defoliation that occurs after a freeze.

In tropical areas, cotton is a perennial crop and it grows without


defoliation or freezing. Cotton continues to be picked by hand in
developing countries.

In a place called Xinjian in in China, Cotton picked up by forced labor.


Xinjiang produces over 20% of the world’s cotton.
COTTON PRODUCTION IN BANGLADESH

The cultivar grown in Bangladesh is known as American Cotton


(Gossypium hirsutum). G. arboreum, locally called Comilla Cotton, is
grown in hilly regions of Chittagong, and the Chittagong Hill Tracks. The
name Comilla Cotton is believed to have originated in the British period,
when it used to be marketed through the river ports of the adjoining
district of Comilla. The hilly variety is cultivated on a limited scale by
tribal people in the southeastern hilly regions of Bangladesh, that is, in
the districts of Rangamati, Khagrachari and Bandarban in the
Chittagong Hill Tracts.

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