ABSTRACT
Upland cotton is called American or New World cotton, and refers to the middleand long-staple cotton grown in the southern part of United States since the seventeenth century. It was used for cotton manufacturing by mills in England, Europe and the United States from the early nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, with mechanization of cotton manufacturing in Asia, Upland cotton began to be planted in Asia. Until then, only short-staple cotton, known as Old World cotton or Asian cotton, was planted widely in Asia. People had used it for hand spinning and weaving from ancient times. These two types of cotton differ in quality and there is a distinction between “Upland cotton for factory production” and “Asian cotton for handicraft production.” So the introduction, popularization, and cultivation of Upland cotton in Asia was a measure of the industrialization of Asia’s cotton industry.1
