World Cotton Day 7 oct

📮 7th October 🗓

🕊World Cotton Day
    विश्व कपास दिवस 

◾️WTO host first World Cotton Day on Geneva in 2019

🔹Cotton is a 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

🔹scientific name of Cotton - Gossypium

🔹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 : Roberto Azevedo

♦️Cotton Corporation of India
▪️Est : 1970
▪️HQ : Navi Mumbai, MH

♦️International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)
▪️Est : 1939
▪️HQ : Washington DC

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