Cotton-harvesting machine HMP-1,8 aggregated with tractor MTZ-80X designed to harvest upland seed cotton from opened boxes of sowing in drills of cotton plant on fields in areas of irrigated cotton growing with row spacing of 90 sm. Cotton-harvesting machine is equipped with stalk crowders, which provide the best cut of cotton bush and introduce them into cotton picking device, where cotton separates from bushes. Then, with the help of airflow, cotton moves to bunker.