QUANTIFICATION OF FIBER QUALITY IN EGYPTIAN COTTON VARIETIES AND PROMISING CROSSES

Quantification of the quality of cotton fiber is an interesting field of textile research because of cotton may have conflicting standards in terms of different fiber quality. Therefore, the ranking or grading of cotton fibers in terms of different quality will certainly not be the same. The solution should imply an index of quality of cotton fiber (quantitative measurements), and the index should incorporate all the important fiber properties, also that fiber properties should be commensurate with their importance on the final yarn quality. Therefore, it is imperative in this investigation to quantify the quality of cotton fiber by using the methods, premium-discount index (POl), fiber quality index (FQI) and Spinning consistency index (SCI).