Cotton example sentences

During the British period cotton belts of India attracted the British and ultimately cotton was exported to Britain as a raw material for their textile industries.Words tell us histories European traders first encountered fine cotton cloth from India carried by Arab merchants in Mosul in present-day Iraq.They were barred from trading with Europe in manufactured goods, and had to export mostly raw materials and food grains – raw cotton, opium, wheat and indigo – required by the British.Despite being an important producer of rice, cotton, rubber, tea, coffee, jute and spices our agricultural products are not able to compete with the developed countries because of the highly subsidised agriculture in those countries.Location of port facilitates import of raw cotton and for exporting textiles.Swapna does not have sufficient resources to grow cotton and, so, has to take a loan from the trader to grow her crop.Till the industrial revolution in the 18th century, cotton cloth was made using hand spinning techniques (wheels) and looms.By the end of the century, peasants were producing sugarcane, cotton, jute, wheat and several other crops for export, to feed the population of urban Europe and to supply the mills of Lancashire and Manchester in England.The product of this activity, cotton, is a natural product.Weavers in India were starved of supplies and forced to buy raw cotton at exorbitant prices.From the 1680s there started a craze for printed Indian cotton textiles in England and Europe mainly for their exquisite floral designs, fine texture and relative cheapness.You can see how fine and clean the cotton is this time.Some of the major crops grown are corn, soyabean, wheat, cotton and sugarbeet.When the American Civil War broke out and cotton supplies from the US were cut off, Britain turned to India.How can I doubt you? I had only hoped that we would earn enough from the cotton crop to last us a few months.