Utilisation of Cotton Stem and Cotton Waste for Board and Paper

Abstract

India is all agricultural cenutry and the main crop beSides the cereals is cotton. In the three cotton growing tracts, there is a frasibility of setting up a small board or wrapping or writing and printing paper mill of inferior quality. In this investigation, production of board by lime procesn wrapping papers by soda or sulphate process and printing papers by alkaline processes have been described, Fibre characteristics as weJl as proximate chemical analysis have also been detailed. Pulping studies on hOsiery waste as well as cotton ginoing waste are also described.