Eco-friendly process of absorbent cotton preparation for rural entrepreneurship

A combined scouring and bleaching process was developed for absorbent cotton preparation using crude enzyme. The substrate for crude enzyme preparation includes banana pseudo stem dry powder, cotton seed hulls and cotton seed meal in the ratio of 60:30:10. The crude enzyme was extracted from the fermented substrate and the pectinase and laccase activity recorded in the enzyme extract was 25 and 7 Units per ml respectively.