Textile manufacturing:

It is based in the convertion of three types of fibre into yarn, then fabric, then textiles. These are then fabricated into clothes or other artifacts. Cotton remains the most important natural fibre, so is treated in depth.

Processing of cotton:
Cotton is the wprld s most impartant fibre. In the year 2011, the global yeild was 25 million tons from 35 millions hectares caltivated in more than 50 countries.

Stages of cotton fibre:

There are six stages of cotton fibre: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Caltivating Picking Ginning Spinning Weaving Finishing

Cotton planting & picking:

Cotton is primarily grown in dry tropical & subtropical climates at temperature between 11c to 25c. it is a warm climiate crop treatened by health or freezing temperatures(below 5c or above 25c),although its resistance varies from spices. Exposure to dryness or moisture at certain stages of the plant development(lasting 5 to7 months) may be determential to cotton quantity & yeilds it might be kill the plants. Cotton commonly known as white gold is an impatant crop for Pakistan & majorly grown in the province of panjab & sindh.

Pakitani cotton specie, gossypium arboreum, in finer but the staple is little short but strong & suitable for hand picking. The best known cotton varites of Pakistan, NIAB-78, evolved by the nuclear institute of agricultural & biology(NIAB), commonly grown in sindh & cover 50% of the area under cotton caltivation in country, similarly an other important variety MNH-93 of panjab, which has a higher yield & has shown tolerance to cotton leaf curl viruc disease. Generaly cotton planting in Pakistan is from mid of march & the crop is picked between june & august. The cotton season conventionally starts in the Pakistan from the month of september in each year. The cotton balls is the seed pod of the cotton plant, attached to each of the thousand of seed of fibres.