Spinning crops are technical cultivated plants from which fiber for the textile industry is made . In world production, cotton , flax , jute and hemp are most widely used.
The field of flowering flax-flax
Cotton Bolls Ready to Harvest
Russia
The most common spinning crops in Russia have long been flax and hemp. Flax was used for the production of fabrics for clothing, hemp was used for ropes and the manufacture of fabrics for sails . At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Empire provided 70% of the acreage and 80% of the global flax harvest, however, due to the decline of the industry, [ when? ] Russia was bypassed by China , which concentrates almost 65% of the world production of flax fiber. Cannabis is completely banned from growing in Russia as a source of narcotic drugs. [ when? ] .
Sources
- Kholina V.N., Rodionova I.A., Naumov A.S.: Socio-Economic Geography of the World: A Reference Book.
- Atlas of the socio-economic development of Russia