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of cotton plants of the genus gossipium. The plant is a shrub native to tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including the Americas, Africa, India, and Pakistan. The fiber most often is spun into yarn thread and used to make a soft, breathable textile, which is the most widely used natural-fiber cloth in clothing today. =**// History: //**= the earliest cultivation of cotton in the Americas occurred in Mexico, some 8,000 years ago. The indigenous species was //Gossypium hirsutum//, which is today the most widely planted species of cotton in the world Cotton was first cultivated in the Old World 7,000 years ago, by the inhabitants of the Indus Valley Civilization, which covered a huge swath of the northwestern part of the South Asia Greeks and the Arabs were not familiar with cotton until the, as his contemporary Wars of Alexander the Great Megasthenes told Seleucus I Nicator of "there are trees on w hich wool grows in, in "Indica".
 * Cotton** is a soft, fluffy staple fiver that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds

= **// The cotton industry: //** = The Indus cotton industry was well developed and some methods used in cotton spinning and fabrication continued to be used until the modern industrialization of India During the late medieval period, cotton became known as an imported fiber in northern Europe, without any knowledge of how it was derived, other than that it was a plant; noting its similarities to wool, people in the region could only imagine that cotton must be produced by plant-borne sheep John Mandeville , writing in 1350, stated as fact the now-preposterous belief: "There grew there [India] a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow  the lambs to feed when they are hungrie

= **// Cultivation //**  = Successful cultivation of cotton requires a long frost-free period, plenty of sunshine, and a moderate rainfall Soils usually need to be fairly heavy, although the level of nutrients does not need to be exceptional. In general, these conditions are met within the seasonally dry tropics and subtropics in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, but a large proportion of the cotton grown today is cultivated in areas with less rainfall that obtain the water from irrigation. Production of the crop for a given year usually starts soon after harvesting the preceding autumn. Planting time in spring in the Northern hemisphere varies from the beginning of February to the beginning of June.

= **// ilness //** = Historically, in North America, one of the most economically destructive pests in cotton production has been the boll weevil.

= **// The now a days’ cotton´s uses: //** = Now a days, Cotton is used to make a number of textile products: ·Bed sheets often are made from cotton. Cotton also is used to make yarn used in crochet and knitting ·Fabric also can be made from recycled or recovered cotton that otherwise would be thrown away duringthe spinning, weaving, or cutting process. ·stretch jeans. ·The cottonseed which remains after the cotton is ginned is used to produce cottonseed oil, which, after refining, can be consumed by humans like any other vegetable oil. ·The cottonseed meal that is left generally is fed to ruminant livestock ·Cottonseed hulls can be added to dairy cattle rations for roughage ·During the American period, cotton root bark was used in folk remedies as an abortifacient, that is, to induce a miscarriage. ·Cotton linters are fine, silky fibers which adhere to the seeds of the cotton plant after ginning. The term also may apply to the longer textile fiber staple lint as well as the shorter fuzzy fibers from some upland species. Linters are traditionally used in the manufacture of paper and as a raw material in the manufacture of cellulose.

this is the cotton of the Bahamas:

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Cotton Production

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The cotton demands a station of growth prolonged with the abundant Sun and water and dry time during the compilation. In general, these conditions are given in tropical and subtropical latitudes of the hemispheres north and south. The culture of the cotton grower is in the habit of being annual; the first labor is the tronzamiento mechanical (court) of the air part of the plants; later these vegetable remains are buried and it is left to rest the soil up to the working. The epoch of plantation is very short and after her, the plantations must be submitted to taken care intense, since these plants are very sensitive to the assault of the undergrowths and parasites. The compilation and the selection are in the habit of realizing to hand, especially in countries that they have cheap workforce; with it there is obtained a cotton of better quality. Nevertheless some countries exist where the compilation is carried out of mechanical form (The United States, Israel, Australia, etc). The recogedoras have a vertical drum provided with screws that hook the cotton and start it of the balls of opened seeds. The peelers are machines less selective that they start the balls of the plant.

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