introduction to cotton

1. INTRODUCTION Textile have much as important bearing on daily lives that everyone needs from earliest times, people have used textiles of various types for covering, warmth. Personal adornment and even to display personal wealth. Today textiles are still used for these purposes and everyone is an ultimate consumer. It begins in agriculture with fibre production of cotton, flax and other fibrous plants. These fibres are process into yarns and fabrics. The yarns are made into fabrics for industrial and consumer uses by various means such as weaving and knitting. The textile industry is the largest industry in terms of employment economy, expected to generate 12mikllion new jobs 2010. It generates massive potential for employment in the sectors from agricultural to industrial. Employment opportunities are created when cotton is cultivated. One thing needed is to give someone directions to organise peoples to get enough share of the profit to speared development. Currently, because of the lifting up of the import restrictions of the multitier arrangements(MFA) since 1st January, 2005 under the world trade organization (WTO) agreement on textiles and clothing. On closer look however, it sounds will be possible with the traditional inputs so far available with the Indian market. India is now a fast emerging market inching to reach half a billion middle income population by 2030. All these factors are good for the Indian textile industries in a long run. Even though the global economic crisis seems to be worsening day by day as long as economies are emerging and growing as those in south and south east Asia. Textile industry is here to grow provided it takes competition and innovation seriously. Most of thousands of years in which dyeing is used by humans to decorate clothing or fabric for other uses. The primary sources of dye have been nature, with the dyes being extracted from animals or plants. In the last 150 years, humans have produced artificial dyes to