Cotton cultivation
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Now cotton is cultivated in almost every country in the world having a mild
climate, suitable for cotton cultivation. American cotton dominates world
market.
Other
countries, large producers of cotton are India, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt and
China.
Cotton cultivation aria
In tropical and sub-tropical regions, vast tracts of land are cultivated
for the production of cotton. These areas lie between lines drawn 45 degree
north and 35 degree south of equator. Apart from the principal cotton growing
areas i.e., USA, India, China, Brazil, Egypt, Mexico, cotton is cultivated in
Turkey, Argentina, Spain, Pakistan, Syria, Peru, Greece and Colombia.
Method of cultivation
In the preparation of the ground for planting, ridges should be formed with spaces of 1.5-2.0 meter between them. Then seeds are sown. When the plants appear on the ground, they should be thinned out leaving only the strongest plant growing at suitable interval along the ridges.
During
growth, precaution should be taken for its resistance towards insects and
diseases the flowers appear in June. This lasts only a day or so. After
disappearance of the flower, the seeds become gradually surrounded bay soft
fibrous substance.
By
this time, the flower pod appears and it grows to full size in August. In
between this time, the fiber growth continues until they mature. The
enlargement of the seed causes the pod to burst and a ball of whitish fibre is
brought to light. In this period, it should be immediately collected for cotton
fibre extraction.
It
should be remembered that cotton is a seed hair and it gets out of the pod as
soon as the seed is mature. The fibre helps the seed to fly in the air and gets
carried away by air flow to other places. So before the seed gets out of the
pod, the cotton ball should be plucked. After plucking, the cotton with the
seed is transferred to the ginning factory for the separation of the fibres
from the seeds.
