Development of an Application Software COTSOFT for Cotton Variety Update

Abstract

The Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (CIRCOT) releases the cotton variety update in a booklet form every year to assist cotton traders and textile mills in their purchase planning at the start of cotton season. It is difficult for a user to select a particular cotton variety and region of his choice at a glance from this booklet. A software COTSOFT was developed to facilitate the user and give information on all the important fibre quality parameters viz. 2.5% span length (mm), length uniformity (UR %), fineness (MIC value) and strength (tenacity 3.2mm (g/t) along with the location of all the prominent cotton varieties. The developed software COTSOFT can be used to access and retrieve cotton varietal information by feeding the necessary quality parameters as input. The paper presents the development and application of COTSOFT.