Terroir (French pronunciation: from terre, land) is the set of all environmental factors that affect a crop's phenotype, including unique environment contexts, farming practices and a crop's specific growth habitat.
Eli Whitney, a native of Massachusetts, secured a patent on the cotton gin in 1793, though patent office records indicate that the first cotton gin may have been built by a machinist named Noah Homes two years before Whitneyâs patent was filed.
Model of Indian cotton gin (1100s AD) October 2016 - When people first started to grow cotton in India, they picked the seeds out by hand before they began to spin the cotton into thread. By 500 BC, women in India used a rolling pin to get the seeds out of cotton - there's a picture of one in the Ajanta Caves - and by the Middle Ages they used an improved version that you rolled with your feet.