What is ginning?

Ginning is the process of separating cotton fibres from the cotton seeds. After cotton is harvested from the cotton plant, the fibres are still attached to the seeds. These seeds must be removed before the fibres can be used to make yarn and fabric.

In earlier times, ginning was done by hand, where workers separated the seeds from the cotton fibres manually. Today, machines called ginning machines are used to perform this process more quickly and efficiently.

Once the seeds are removed, the clean cotton fibres are collected and compressed into bales. These bales are then sent to textile factories where the fibres are processed further to produce yarn and fabric.