Cotton bale on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
A Cotton bale is a standard-sized and weighted
File:Cottonfieldindia.jpg, Cotton Field at Singalandapuram, Rasipuram, India (2017)
File:Cotton field, Ware County, GA, US.jpg, Cotton field
File:Cotton plant, Ware County, GA, US.jpg, Cotton plant
File:BALLS OF COTTON (ANDHRA -SOUTH INDIA) READY FOR HARVEST.jpg, link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BALLS_OF_COTTON_(ANDHRA_-SOUTH_INDIA)_READY_FOR_HARVEST.jpg, Cotton ready for harvest in Andhra, south India
File:Cotton field, late in season.jpg, A cotton field, late in the season
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 137-029895, Togo, Pflügen eines Baumwollfeldes.jpg, Cotton plowing in Togo, 1928
File:Armenian cotton.jpg, Picking cotton in
Image:Cotton gin EWM 2007.jpg, A model of a 19th-century cotton gin on display at the
A Cotton bale is a standard-sized and weighted pack
Pack or packs may refer to:
Places
* Pack, Austria, a municipality in Styria, Austria
* Pack, Missouri
* Chefornak Airport
Chefornak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport in Chefornak, a city in the Bethel Census Area of the U.S ...
of compressed cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor p ...
lint after ginning. The dimensions and weight may vary with different cotton-producing countries.
Significance
A bale has an essential role from the farm to the factory. The cotton yield is calculated in terms of the number of bales. Bale is a standard packaging method for cotton to avoid various hassles in handling, packing, and transportation. The bales also protect the lint from foreign contamination and make them readily identifiable.Standards
Bale
A "bale of cotton" is also the standard trading unit for cotton on the wholesale national and international markets. Although different cotton-growing countries have their bale standards, for example, In the United States, cotton is usually measured at approximately 0.48 cubic meters (17 cubic feet) and weighs 226.8 kilograms (500 pounds). In India, the standard bale size is 170 kg.Parameters
The most important parameters of a cotton bale are: * Density (448 kg/m3) * Measurements of the bales (nominally 1.40 m X 0.53 m X 0.69 m) * Weight (Varies, but ‘statistical’ bale weighs 480 lb) Advances instandardization
Standardization or standardisation is the process of implementing and developing technical standards based on the consensus of different parties that include firms, users, interest groups, standards organizations and governments. Standardization ...
are reducing the variation in weights, sizes, dimensions, and densities of cotton bales.
Candy
Candy is another trading unit. A candy weighs approximately 2.09 bales (356 kg). In India, ginned cotton is traded in terms of candy also which weighs 356 kg (355.62 kg).Trash
When cotton is harvested and exposed to ginning, it carries more than 64% cottonseed, 2% waste and 34% fibrous matter (also known aslint
Lint may refer to:
* Fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant
* Lint (material), an accumulation of fluffy fibers that collect on fabric
Places
* Lint, Belgium, a municipality located in Antwerp, Belgium
* Linț, a vill ...
). Lower trash percentage in cotton increases the recovery. Cotton bales are not pure cotton; they contain foreign contaminants, residual trash and leaf (and other non lint material) that have a direct impact on the recovery in yarn spinning.
Gallery
Cotton cultivation
Harvesting
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ...
in the 1930s. No cotton is grown there today.
File:Cotton Picking in Egypt.tif, A group of Egyptian fellahs picking cotton by hand
File:Cotton handle peeling (Buka district, Tashkent region, Uzbekistan)-06.jpg, Hand picking cotton ( Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
File:Module Builder.jpg, A module builder
File:2014.01-413-0023ap upland cotton,module ...(Clinch Cnty,Georgia),US wed01jan2014-1557h.jpg, Cotton modules in a harvested cotton field (Clinch County, Georgia, USA, January 2014).
File:Module Express.JPG, Case IH Module Express 625 picks cotton and simultaneously builds cotton modules
File:Cotton modules.JPG, Cotton modules in Australia (2007)
Ginning and bale making
Eli Whitney Museum
The Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut, is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. The museum's main building is located on a portion of the Eli Whitney Gun Factory site, a gun factory erected by Eli Whitn ...
in Hamden, Connecticut
Image:ginplant.jpg, Diagram of a modern cotton gin plant, displaying numerous stages of production
File:Cotton jins in use.jpg, Modern ginning machines in working
File:Cotton bales at the port in Bombay in the 1860s.JPG, Cotton bales at the port in Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the '' de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the sec ...
, India, 1860's.
File:Cotton Ready for Shipment, Houston, Texas.jpg, Cotton ready for shipment, Houston, Texas
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in ...
(postcard, circa 1911)
See also
*Cotton gin
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (); a ...
* Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus '' Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor p ...
* Spinning (textiles)
Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers. The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin. A few popular fibers that are spun into yarn other than cotton, which is the most popular, are viscose (the most common ...
* Wool bale
References
{{Reflist Cotton Cotton gin Cotton production