Long-staple cottons have relatively longer fibre, are expensive and used mostly to make fine fabrics, yarns, and hosiery.[15] The country's economic development is largely dependent on the cotton industry and its related textile sector, and this has given a principal status to cotton in the country.[3] Apart from use in textiles in the form of cotton lint, yarn, thread, cloth, and garments, its seeds are used for oil extraction.[4]