Pakistani cotton and the contamination problem
2005
Jan, A.U. | Khattak, F.U.K, | Amin-ur-Rehman | Shah, J. | Siddiqui, S.M.,PakistanCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research Labs., Peshawar (Pakistan)
Pakistani cotton has the potential to compete with the world's best cottonqualities. However, the quality of cotton has been adversely affected by thecontamination factor. As a result, Pakistan has been losing about 15-20% of thetrue value of raw cotton annually. This contamination results in abnormally highNLC (non-lint content) and assigned as "self inflicted wounds". The author furthermentioned that these impurities not only impair the quality of raw cotton, but alsocause serious major faults in spinning, weaving, knitting, and textile-processing,thus resulting in low grade end-products. There are two main factors involvedwhich are the cause of contamination of cotton. One is the malpractice adoptedduring picking, storage and transportation before ginning, and then finally duringtransporting the cotton to textile mills and its storage in mills godowns. The otherfactor is the non-standardized methodology adopted during picking and ginningprocessing.
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