The Peruvian cotton and broadcast around the world

In the late nineteenth century, when the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, built the Suez Canal, Frenchman, Monsieur Jumel, travel to South America, took seeds Barbadian cotton from Peru and were taken to Egypt, being planted in the Nile Valley, where later the British Royal School of Genetics, I improve with selection and backcrossing, obtaining a number of varieties, from Metafifi, Sakel, Sakelaridis (sakaridis), Karnak, until the current Giza, who like extra long staple in varieties G-45, and other 70 series are the iconic representation of the current cotton, now known as the Experimental Station egipcio.De Giza, Dr. Lambert came to propagate in Upper Nile, Sudan, Long fiber varieties which later became known as Lambert, Dendera, BarakatGezira, etc.

Peru also came out of the Barbadian cotton, which in 1954 began to be planted in the experimental station of Tel Aviv, leading the tech grown under irrigation and known as Israeli Pima.

In the early twentieth century, the selection of Barbadian cultivated in Egypt, was taken to America and planted in the desert southwest, in the State of Arizona in the Yuma and Pima, from which he took his name Pima cotton. subsequently, the Pima cotton is reintroduced to Peru in 1934 by the leader farmer Emilio Hilbck Seminar and is planted on land that is irrigating, won the Piura desert.

He returned to Barbadian its center of origin, acclimatize quickly, forming an acorn 3 cores, with hairless seed and fiber that tends to lengthen, from the original 1.7 / 16 "(36.5mm) to the current standard of 1.90 / 16" ( 39.7mm) and in some years, and during the campaign of 1999, coinciding with the favorable conditions of post child syndrome, developing length up to 1.5 / 8 "(41.3mm) and 1.1 / 16" (42.9mm.) I certify to the extra long staple cotton grown in the department of Piura, known as Peruvian Pima, the variety of cotton longest cultivated now in the world fiber additionally be mentioned that in Piura valleys because of the low humidity, its fiber is covered by an intrinsic natural wax in the fiber, which then results in a different dyeing treatment, but allows transport the final product that gently tap tissues, or that natural brightness to be appreciated that in some cases confused as if it would have been mercerized, features popularized the slogan repeated in the monthly magazine of Land s End, editing catalog sales in the world "Peruvian Pima, soft as hair of angel" (soft Peruvian Pima as the hair of an angel)

Distribution of Cotton Gossypium barbadense
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