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Cotton is the most widely used natural fiber in the modern age
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Cotton cultivation in the ancient world may have originated in India 6,000 years ago. Although India's cotton sector declined during the late 18th and early 19th century, but during the American Civil War in the 1860s it grew enormously to replace the lost production from America for British mills. Cotton was one of the crops that led to the rise of Bombay as an export port. |
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