Question

Why Mansa district is known as the Land of white gold?
A. Because it is a rich cotton growing region
B. Because of gold deposits
C. Because of candle industries
D. All of the above

Answer 1

Hint:
 Mansa district is situated in the cotton belt of Punjab, hence this area is known as Land of White Gold. The farmers there call it white gold for bringing higher remuneration.

Complete answer:
Mostly harvesting of cotton in Mansa in the Kharif season. Cotton is a soft natural fibrillate. Clothes made by cotton are strong, economical, and aesthetic. Fibre of cotton is made by cellulose and contains the 91 percent cellulose and 8 percent water. For harvesting of cotton, the climate should be hot and soil should be black and cultivation of cotton soil is also known as Black Cotton Soil. Rainfall should be approx 100 cm, temperature 25 degree celsius and time duration can be something 200 days for harvesting the cotton.

There are some methods through, we find the cotton at the final stage. That is;

When the cotton plants are ready to be ripe, they are collected by hands or by machine.

Ginning – The Ginning work is done by hand or machine. By this process, the dust particles, leaves, wood, seeds etc. present in the fibre are separated.

Carding – In this process, fibre gets cleaned up and becomes long and parallel.

Combing – This is an expensive process. In this process, fibres are smoothed and parallelized. With this, the small pieces are separated by pouring the same creaming fibers.

Slivering – In the process of slivering, small packs of cotton are made, whose length is 5-7 inches and thickness is 1 inch. And these packs go throughout the machine by which the packs are closely dense and followed by the other machine to make long and rich cotton packs.

After that followed by the Spinning, weaving, finishing and coloring the cotton according suitability.

Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note:
There are some features of cotton. Such as; Natural cellulosic fibre, Absorbs breathes and water, Convenient to wear, Easily wrinkless, Can use the Bleach and stand in the front of heat. Mansa District is in the southeast of Bathinda district. Punjab’s largest thermal power plant is in the Mansa District.