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Fiber Crop
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Fiber Crop 

a plant raised for fiber. Fiber crops include annual and perennial species of different botanical families. The fiber may be obtained from the seeds (cotton), the fruit (Ceiba pentandrd), the stalks (bast plants), or the leaves (agave and New Zealand flax). In world agriculture, cotton, jute, hemp, flax, and kenaf occupy the greatest areas; in the USSR cotton, flax, and hemp are the most important fiber crops. The fibers are used by the textile industry.



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At the end of the study, those on psyllium, a naturally occurring vegetable fibre, reported symptom severity had been reduced by 90 points using a standard scale of rating problems.
One European investigation concluded that eating fruit and vegetable fibre might actually limit the risk of colorectal cancer.
Like other natural vegetable fibre materials, coir tents to have a variety of fibre sizes and colours, even when dyed, these fibres have a tendency to revert to their natural shade if exposed to direct sunlight.
 
 
 
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