Neven Azad

Salahaddin University - Erbil | SUH · College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) belongs to the family Malvaceae. Cotton plant produces seeds and fibers, its fiber as an important textile material for making clothes, papers and after mixing with other fiber plants which is utilized for making composites. Additionally, oil in which extracted from the seeds used for food and also it uses as a source...

Natural fibers or fibers derived from crop plants, which divided into different types according to their extraction place like seed, bast(stem), leaf fibers and fruit fibers. Fiber crops have many advantages that can be used in textile industries for making cloths, papers, towels, ropes and in other products such as in food, medicines, cosmetic, co...

Background Intensive research globally requested on climate change and increase the risk of drought. Organic mulch applications may be right way of agricultural management strategy for right now. This experiment conducted by using wheat straw mulch (M0 as control and M1= 4.2 t. ha⁻¹), two plant spacing of (S1= 25cm and S2= 35cm) with three varietie...

Kenaf plant is a valuable industrial crop from Malvaceae family. It's considered as dual purpose crop, in which its best and core fibers used in paper, pulp industry and livestock feed. Recently, kenaf seeds and leaves used in medicine because of their beneficial chemical composition that include phenolic compounds, antioxidants, phytosterols, fatt...

Cotton is a sensitive crop for the agronomic practices. Therefore, in this experiment two levels of wheat straw mulch (0 and 4.2 t ha-1) and two different plant spacing (25 and 35 cm), applied on three cotton varieties; Lachata, Coker 310 and Stoneville 213 which were to investigate growth traits and also controlling of weeds, pests, insects and di...