Allen Terhaar, executive director of Cotton Council International, said: 'Cotton is 15-20per cent of the textile component of what people are wearing.

The South East regards the area as being entirely covered by decayed textile mills, and populated by strange people wearing flat caps accompanied by whippets.

Flax is a kind of natural cellulose fiber with excellent properties, which make its products good wearing characteristics and style. So it meets requirements of the markets in the global textile.