In today's society it is picked by a machine in the fields. Back before the machine was invented slaves or others did it by hand and picked out the seeds. Now the machine sorts and picks out the seeds.
Picked and sorted by hand --> hand-picked and sorted by a simple machine --> picked and sorted by complex machinery
Most is still picked by hand. All fruits are picked by hand with people on ladders reaching for the fruit in the trees or hand picking strawberries, mushrooms, onions, lettuce ( in the lettuce fields they bring up big trailers and they pick and box it right in the field) grapes are still by hand and laid out on paper if they are to be raisins. After the raisins are dried they are rolled in the paper and picked up by hand. Corn is picked by machine and so it cotton. Some nuts are also done by machine. Tomatoes are by hand and put on big trailers and taken to the processing plant. Squished tomatoes are all over the roads in tomato season.
Cotton is currently picked by machine. They used to have slaves pick the cotton in the south by hand. You seem to have forgotton the people (both white & black) that picked cotton after the slaves & before the cotton picking machines.
A rice thrasher machine separates the rice grains from the stalks and husks.
They picked cotton by hand. Hand picking was the only option until the 1950's when cotton picking machine was developed. Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin on March 14 1794 to remove the seeds and pods from the picked cotton
By hand.
it helps strengthen fingers and hand from moving through rice.
During the Civil War, there WAS no machinery to pick cotton- it was picked by hand. The machine that was used to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds was the Cotton Gin (as in engine).
Rice harvester is a machine used to harvest rice crops. It is used by the farmers a lot.
I guess it's either to chop it down for wood or pick the fruit it bares.
Rice harvester is a machine used to harvest rice crops. It is used by the farmers a lot.