Question

Cotton provides raw material for _____.

• A. Paper industry
• B. Cotton textile industry
• C. Chemical industry
• D. Paint industry

Answer 1

The correct option is B Cotton textile industry

• India is one of the important cotton-manufacturing countries of the world.
  
• Both short-staple and long-staple cotton is grown in the country.
  
• The cotton textile industry requires raw cotton as principal raw material and chemicals like caustic soda, dyes, arrowroot or starch, etc. for its production.
  
• The cotton growing regions are Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, etc.