3. Briefly describe how the following crops are harvested.
Cotton
Wheat
Sugarcane
Answers
Answer:
cotton plant for soil nutrients, sunlight and water. ... Since hand labor is no longer used in the U.S. to harvest cotton, the crop is harvested by machines, either a picker or a stripper. Cotton picking machines have spindles that pick (twist) the seed cotton from the burrs that are attached to plants' stems.
Answer:
Sugar cane:
sugar cane is grown from stalks (setts), which are planted in the ground and sprout after two to four weeks. Once mature, crops are harvested between June to December. A mechanical harvester cuts the cane into 30cm lengths called billets, these are then collected and transported to the mill within 16 hour
Wheat:
a) Harvesting:
The rain-fed crop reaches the harvest stage much earlier than the irrigated crop. The crop is harvested when the grains become hard and the straw becomes dry and brittle.The harvesting is mostly done by sickle. The crop is threshed by treading with cattle on the threshing-flour or by power driven thresher.
b) Yield:
The national average yield of wheat grain is about 12 to 13.8 quintals per hectare.
Cotton:
To pick the cotton from the bolls, simply grasp the cotton ball at the base and twist it out of the boll. As you pick, crop the cotton into a bag as you go. Cotton isn't ready to harvest all at one time, so leave any cotton that isn't ready to harvest for another day.