How you harvest cotton?

Answer 1

Cotton grows in a fairly large plant, but to pick the cotton the plant has to be killed so the cotton bolls will open for picking. So, a defoliation takes place and a chemical agent is used to kill the plant. This happens each fall and it has a skunk like smell. After the plant is dead a machine called a cotton picker goes down each row of cotton and pulls the cotton off the plant. Since it all doesn't come off the first time the picker makes several runs for several weeks in the field. If it rains in this time the quality of the cotton goes down for selling. The rain yellows the whiteness of the cotton. After it is picked the picker puts the cotton in big trailers that take the cotton to the gin. At the gin the cotton is cleaned and processed. The seeds are removed and the cotton is put in large bales so it can be taken for auction. When all the cotton is finished in the field the field is plowed under to prevent bollworms.

Answer 2

with their bare hands and sometimes cloth