In the Indus River Valley in Pakistan, cotton was grown, spun & woven into cloth 3,000 years BC. Arab merchants brought cotton cloth to Europe about 800 A.D. When Columbus discovered America in 1492, he found cotton growing Bahamas Islands. By 1500, cotton was known generally throughout the world.
Our choice of producing mainly cotton based products to ascertain the advantages of consuming cotton fiber are:
- ► Cotton absorbs humidity inside and emits it to the outside, and plays a role of natural air-conditioner.
- ► It uses sunlight and converts it directly to a fiber without intermediate processing steps.
- ► Cotton is a food & fiber crop. Salads and cooking oils are made of cotton seed oil & cotton linters are also used in pharmaceuticals
- ► It uses less pesticides than many commodities, such as cereals, corn, rice & soybeans
- ► Cotton production uses less than 8% of the world’s pesticides while meeting almost half of the textile needs.
- ► Easy to wash, Non Allergenic, biodegradable & recycled material as it can decompose easily.
- ► The energy contained in cottonseed is greater than all of the energy that it takes to produce crop of cotton.