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Everything You Need To Know About Cotton, What is Supima

What is cotton? What is the best quality of cotton? What is Supima? Chapters below! 0:00 Start 0:54 What is cotton? 1:40 Production of cotton 2:41 Best quality of cotton / Supima 6:36 Downsides of cotton production /// Speaker: Abigail /// Script by Tayyab /// Hashtags: #cotton #supima #fashiony #documentary #lifestyle #fashion #fastfashion #textile #garment Cotton is the world’s most popular cultivated non-food plant. People have been growing this plant for a long time, and the major reason for its popularity is that it has been used to make cottonseed oil and animal feed and is the chief material of the fashion industry. Basically, cotton is a soft, fleecy staple fiber. There is evidence that says that cotton has been used in textile in India since 5000 BC. The cotton plant actually needs a lot of sunlight, a lengthy period of frost, and plenty of rain. Cotton grows in about all tropical and subtropical regions of the world, and the most popular countries producing these plants are the US, Uzbekistan, China, and Pakistan. How To Produce It Farmers mostly grow cotton seeds in the spring reason, and the major is that the growth of this plant requires a lot of water. After planting the trees, the plant grows into the green with a height of around three meters. When the plants get to such height, farmers spray them so that the leaves die and the plant remains with bare sticks. It takes around five months during this process. The bolls open up to disclose the fluff, and the cotton waits for the farmer to pick. In some countries like Australia, farmers use heavy machinery like harvesters to pick the cotton and then gather them into round modules and move them to the cotton gin for further processing. So in the next processing, or you may call it ginning processing, the lint gets isolated from the seed and then transformed. Then this is sent to the textile mill to be transformed into thread and woven into fabric. According to a report, about twenty-five million tons of cotton is produced in the world, and Supima is just 1% of it, which makes it so unique. Supima is mostly grown in the US, especially in California and Arizona. As per the statements of some experts, you could find the best quality of Supima only in California, and the reason is the stable climatic condition and fertility of the soil. The extra-long staple fiber gives it premium characteristics like strength, smoothness, and color holding. It is mostly grown on the five hundred farms, and the majority of them are run by the second or maybe third generations. The farmers of Supima are proud of their quality cotton and long legacy, and that is true, as they have invested years and years in it. They ensure the health of the seed, the fertility of the land, and the clean water used for a plant. Many people believe that it is a kind of cotton plant, but actually, that is not the case. . Another interesting thing about ASA is its guidelines that or dangerous thing in the production or manufacturing process. This makes the Supima environment friendly. Moreover, the Supima organization checks each and every step from fiber to the final product in order to maintain quality. One thing you should know about cotton is that its size does not matter at all. What really matters is its longer fiber. The great thing about Supima is that it has long fibers that give it an edge over another cotton. The normal length of normal cotton is usually about one inch, but if it is Supima, then it goes up to one and a half inches. The length makes a difference. What Is The Best Quality Of Cotton Supima is very rare and the best quality cotton. It is basically a brand known as ASA. Supima was actually introduced for the first time back in 1911 when one of the farms discovered a cotton plant with extra-long staple fiber. That was strong and smooth, and this plant became popular as Pima. Back in 1954, the organization of Supima came into existence by a group of US because the demand for this quality of cotton increased greatly. After a few years, in 1988, this cotton earned its repute that it is the best quality of cotton and also became the number one pick of Swiss and Italian high-end spinners. If we compare the Supima with other cotton like Egyptian cotton, Egyptian cotton actually represents the country of origin, and a very small percent of the cotton that has a long staple quality comes from Egypt. About 10% of the cotton comes from Egypt, and 90% of this cotton comes from India and China. The Downsides Of Production The major downsides of cotton production are that many farmers use pesticides, which are harmful to the soil. Also, this plant consumes a lot of water. You would be shocked to hear that it takes about 2,720 liters of water to make one t-shirt, and imagine if you have to make a pair of jeans, it would probably need more than ten thousand liters of water.