Hello Hive

Its a new week already and not a time to be lazy at all. I'm glad that I feel so better today having been forced to take some injection and IV fluid on Saturday night as my body could no longer bear with the much stress.
Today I won't be doing any hard labour either as I have only stepped in the farm to bring some prepared meals to the labourers assisting us to cultivate our rice fields.

Here is what the manual Cultivation of the field often looks like. Using these hoes the pull up the soil and turn it over. Turning it over like this often bury both grasses and their seeds that germinates alongside side our grains whenever they are planted.

Actually we have often been seeking for various means to ease ourselves from this kind of hard labour. There should be tractors that can be able to turn the lands like this. Even though I'm not sure if tractors can work on a rice field as the soil here is more of clay than sand, nevertheless been a mechanical equipment it should be able to work on any soil. Turning the soil shouldn't be hard for any machine.

Why this manual form of cultivation?

There are a few reasons why we often carry out the cultivation of rice fields in this manner.

First I was thought that it fixes soul nutrients faster enough, whenever we are done with any farming season, some debris are deposited on the soil surface and in addition to these, the cattles that grazes on the land after harvest often dump their dungs on the farm surface. Turning the land over buried both debris and dungs that gets decomposed and assimilated into the soil faster. Once our grains are planted/transplanted here they assimilate the nutrients easily.

Turning the soil over also buried grasses which will subsequently get withered and not interfere with the growth of our crops. We often do this for field that grow grasses easily even after trying to control the weeds with some herbicides.

One of the most important reasons We specifically love to turn over the land for growing rice is for the portion of the farm where we would be transplanting oue seedlings.
Turning over the land breaks the soils hard surface making transplanting more easier. The seedlings are often fragile and should never be forced into the soil especially when the soil is hard. Cultivating the land like this looses the soils hardness and we can deposit the weaker seedling easily.