Increase in import of cotton by China has raised the world cotton trade for 2011-12 by 1 million bales, according to the latest USDA WASDE report.
Cotton Yarn is a by product of cotton and is manufactured by processing cotton fiber. India was dominant in producing and also consuming cotton yarns and India’s textile mills produces some of the best textiles. But because the mill owners could not modernize their equipments, they lost to much modern practices adapted in the west and lost their edge. Most of the mills are deserted and its employees jobless. The prime lands where the mills stood have big shopping malls now. The invasion of polyester into the textile industry also added fuel to fire.
The term cloth fibers refers to fibers that can be spun into thread or prepared into fabric by such operations as weaving, knitting, braiding, and felting. Clothes can be woven, from cotton, wool, silk, linen and also polyester. Yarns are made up of any amount of plies, every ply being a single spun yarn.
