Cotton is a part of our daily lives and has hundreds of uses, from blue jeans to soap. All parts of the cotton plant are useful, the most important being the fibre or lint, which is used to make yarn for cotton cloth. The linters (the short fuzz on the seed) provide amongst others cellulose for making plastics, explosives and other products whilst the cottonseed itself is crushed into three separate products namely oil, meal and hulls. The oil is used primarily for shortening, cooking oil and salad dressing whilst the meal and hulls that remain are mainly used either separately or in combination as livestock, poultry and fish feed and as fertilizer.
Cotton is a natural renewable resource
