24 Facts About Cotton Boll

Cotton Boll was independently domesticated in the Old and New Worlds.

Cotton Boll fabric was known to the ancient Romans as an import, but cotton was rare in the Romance-speaking lands until imports from the Arabic-speaking lands in the later medieval era at transformatively lower prices.

Cotton Boll was grown upriver, made into nets, and traded with fishing villages along the coast for large supplies of fish.

Cotton Boll has been spun, woven, and dyed since prehistoric times.

Cotton Boll manufacture was introduced to Europe during the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and Sicily.

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The Lancashire Cotton Boll Famine prompted the main purchasers of cotton, Britain and France, to turn to Egyptian cotton.

In 1860 the slogan "Cotton Boll is king" characterized the attitude of Southern leaders toward this monocrop in that Europe would support an independent Confederate States of America in 1861 in order to protect the supply of cotton it needed for its very large textile industry.

Cotton Boll remained a key crop in the Southern economy after slavery ended in 1865.

Cotton Boll remains a major export of the United States, with large farms in California, Arizona and the Deep South.

Cotton Boll is naturally a perennial but is grown as an annual to help control pests.

Cotton Boll can be cultivated to have colors other than the yellowish off-white typical of modern commercial cotton fibers.

Cotton Boll has been genetically modified for resistance to glyphosate a broad-spectrum herbicide discovered by Monsanto which sells some of the Bt cotton seeds to farmers.

Cotton Boll industry relies heavily on chemicals, such as fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides, although a very small number of farmers are moving toward an organic model of production.

Cotton Boll yield is threatened by the evolution of new biotypes of insects and of new pathogens.

Cotton Boll strippers are used in regions where it is too windy to grow picker varieties of cotton, and usually after application of a chemical defoliant or the natural defoliation that occurs after a freeze.

Cotton Boll is a perennial crop in the tropics, and without defoliation or freezing, the plant will continue to grow.

Cotton Boll continues to be picked by hand in developing countries and in Xinjiang, China, by forced labor.

Cotton Boll production recovered in the 1970s, but crashed to pre-1960 levels in the early 1990s.

Cotton Boll can be blended with linen producing fabrics with the benefits of both materials.

Cotton Boll linters are fine, silky fibers which adhere to the seeds of the cotton plant after ginning.

Cotton Boll lisle, or fil d'Ecosse cotton, is a finely-spun, tightly twisted type of cotton that is noted for being strong and durable.

The four introduced a "Sectoral Initiative in Favour of Cotton Boll", presented by Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore during the Trade Negotiations Committee on 10 June 2003.

Cotton Boll is bought and sold by investors and price speculators as a tradable commodity on 2 different commodity exchanges in the United States of America.

Cotton Boll has a more complex structure among the other crops.