🕊World Cotton Day
Theme 2021 : "Cotton For Good"
◾️WTO host first World Cotton Day on Geneva in 2019
🔹Scientific Name - Gossypium
🔹Kharif Crop
🔹Black soils(Regur soil) is known as cotton soil
🔹First evidence of Cotton found in mehargarh
🔹Cotton was first produced in the Indus region called by the Greeks - Sindon
🔹Cotton City of India - Yavatmal MH
🔹Largest cotton producing country in the world - India
🔹Largest cotton producing state in india - Gujarat
🔹1st Indian cotton cloth mill - Kolkata in 1818
🔹1st cotton textile mill in British India - Bombay
🔹Calico Act 1720 - ban printed cotton textile import from india
🔹“Cotton Four”(C4) countries are
🔸Mali
🔸Chad
🔸Benin
🔸Burkina Faso
♦️World Trade Organization (WTO)
▪️HQ : Geneva
▪️Founded : 1 Jan 1995
▪️Leader : Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
♦️Cotton Corporation of India
▪️Est : 1970
▪️HQ : Navi Mumbai, MH
♦️International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)
▪️Est : 1939
▪️HQ : Washington DC
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