Geography PYQ 280 of 587 · Industry · Miscellaneous : Industry

The raw materials on which the cotton industry depends are—

  1. AWeight-losing inputs
  2. BWeight-gaining inputs
  3. CWeight-neutral inputs
  4. DNone of the above

41st B.P.S.C. (Pre) 1996

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Correct answer: (a) Weight-losing inputs

Explanation

In the cotton industry, raw cotton is treated as a weight-losing input: it loses weight during ginning and processing, when seeds and impurities are removed. So option (a) is the answer.

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