“Cotton cultivation in the Old World began from India, where cotton has been grown for more than 6,000 years, since the pre-Harappan period. Cotton from the Harappan civilization was exported to Mesopotamia duringthe 3rd millennium BC, and cotton was soon known to the Egyptiansas well. The famous Greek historian Herodotus wrote:

"There are trees which grow wild there, the fruit of which is a wool exceedingin beauty and goodness that of sheep. The Indians make their clothes of this tree wool."