Geography
Answer
The advantages of Long Staple Cotton is that the longer the cotton fiber, the stronger, softer, and more durable the resulting fabric. Long staple cotton is long, fine and shiny. It is used for making fine and superior quality cloth.
Fabrics made of long-staple cottons fray less, pill less, wrinkle less, and even fade less than fabrics made with their short-staple counterparts.
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Which climatic conditions favour the cultivation of cotton?
(i) How is frost harmful for the growth of cotton plant? Why is dry weather necessary at the time of harvesting cotton?
(ii) Why is the net sown area of the cotton crop declining?
Why Gujarat and Maharashtra are the leading producers of Cotton?
Given on the right is a sketch of the processes involved in ginning. Describe them in your own words.
