What do cotton flowers and other curious facts about white gold look like?

Cotton is a natural material of plant origin. Unlike synthetic products, cotton clothes are pleasant to wear, comfortable and easy to wear. Probably, every person on our plan has clothes and home textiles made of cotton. But what do we know about this plant and the global cotton industry? We will not talk about hectares and tons, but offer to get acquainted with some interesting, in our opinion, facts about cotton.

Cotton is not only fabric.

Most of us know that cotton is used to make cotton fabrics and cotton wool. In fact, its use is much wider. Cotton seeds separated during cotton cleaning are rich in vegetable fats. They make oil, which is widely used in cosmetology, and also receive cotton flour. Another waste of the production of cotton - downs, which is used in the production of photo paper and photographic films, as well as plastics and some paints and varnishes. Husk and other wastes from cotton production, rich in useful substances, go to the production of animal feed.

Cottonseed oil

Cotton is gorgeous flowers

Everyone is familiar with the look of a ripened cotton box before harvesting, but only the people who grow it know how the flowers of this plant look. We offer a look at the flowers of several varieties of cotton, which belongs to the family of Malvaceae.

Cotton is an incredible water absorber

Cotton fibers have amazing absorbent properties. Cotton can absorb up to 27 times the amount of water in it. Therefore, cotton is the ideal material for making towels.

Cactus roots

Since cotton is an inhabitant of dry regions, its root system is designed in such a way as to extract the maximum amount of water from the soil. Studies have shown that the roots of this plant can penetrate the soil to a depth of 3 meters.

In Asia, it grows faster.

In Asia, cotton ripens faster than anywhere else in the world, and it takes about 6 months to grow it. At the same time, in the USA this figure is increasing up to 8-10 months.

Cotton is very profitable

Cotton grows in the southern regions with a warm but fairly dry climate. Contrary to popular belief, cotton is not only grown in developing countries in Asia and Africa. An economically developed country such as the United States takes the second place in the world after China in cotton production and is a leading exporter of this raw material in the world market. The only difference is that in the countries of Asia and Africa, cotton is harvested manually, and in the USA, Australia, Brazil and other developed countries, agricultural machinery is used to collect it.

Cotton grows even in Russia

And in our country it is possible to grow this southern culture. For several years now, successful experiments in growing cotton varieties adapted to our conditions have been conducted in the Astrakhan region.

Genetics also “improve” cotton

Tireless genetics who want to improve everything on our planet, conduct their experiments with cotton. But so far they cannot be called successful, and the story of large-scale crops of genetically modified cotton, which did not meet the expectations of farmers in India, has already caused a wave of public indignation.