Cotton: Relationships

Every element and industry that Cotton is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

• Soybeans: Cotton and soybeans compete for the same fields in the US and in central India, but in Brazil most cotton is sown straight after the soybean harvest, and cottonseed meal competes with soybean meal as feed. (researched)
• Viscose fibre: Viscose is cellulose from wood pulp regenerated into a fibre that handles much like cotton, so the two compete for the same spinning mills and garments and are often blended. Cotton is about three times larger by volume, and in India the viscose industry runs almost entirely on imported dissolving pulp. (researched)
• Aerospace and defence: Aerospace and defence depends on cotton.
• Apparel and footwear: Apparel and footwear depends on cotton.
• Crude oil: Their prices have moved together.
• Dyes: Their prices have moved together.
• E-commerce and digital marketplaces: E-commerce and digital marketplaces depends on cotton.
• Energy in farming: Their prices have moved together.
• Finance: banking, insurance, markets: Finance: banking, insurance, markets depends on cotton.
• Furniture: Furniture depends on cotton.
• Healthcare services: Healthcare services depends on cotton.
• Hospitality and tourism: Hospitality and tourism depends on cotton.
• Insecticides: Their prices have moved together.
• Medical devices: Medical devices depends on cotton.
• Polyester fibre: Their prices have moved together.
• Starch and cellulose derivatives: Cotton is a raw material for starch and cellulose derivatives.
• Textiles and leather: Textiles and leather depends on cotton.
• Tobacco: Their prices have moved together.
• Wholesale and retail trade: Wholesale and retail trade depends on cotton.
• Wool: Their prices have moved together.