Cotton grown organically encourages the planting of food crops, often food staples and those in demand locally, as part of a farm system. Organic produce often has higher levels of dry weight and nutrition. Cotton grown organically is more resilient to climatic stresses such as drought and floods.
Known as green-seed cotton, was very hard to remove and very time consuming. A worker could spend an entire day picking seeds from a single pound of this cotton. The three crops that dominated the southern agriculture was tobacco, rice, and indigo. ... It became easier to make with the cotton gin.
