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Green Manure and Rice: How to Grow a Green Manure Crop
A green manure crop is a crop grown especially to provide nitrogen for the rice crop, and to add organic matter to the soil. It is planted before or after rice when the land is vacant. Then it is ploughed into the soil as fertilizer for the rice. It is important to choose the right…
Green Manure and Rice: Choose the Right Green Manure Crop
A green manure crop is a crop grown especially to provide nitrogen for the rice crop and to add organic matter to the soil. It is planted before or after rice when the land is vacant. Then it is ploughed into the soil as fertilizer for the rice. So growing a green manure crop is…
Green Manure and Rice: Get Higher Rice Yields with Green Manure Crops
Every farmer must think about how to get good yields, not only this season but year after year. As rice grows, it takes nutrients out of the soil. The crop uses about 20 kg nitrogen, 5 kg phosphorus, and 44 kg potassium to produce one ton of rice grain! When no fertilizer is added and…
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From the United States: Weevils Bean Tumbling Controls Farmers who grow beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) know the damage the larvae of the common bean weevil (Acanthoscelides obtectus) can do. The larvae can quickly reduce a bag of beans to nothing. But the problem is easy to solve according to Dr. Martha Quentin from Michigan State…
Grow Your Own Fertilizer -Plant Cover Crops with Maize
Many farmers in different parts of the world are growing their own fertilizers. Commercial fertilizers are becoming more and more expensive and they often fail to keep the soil fertile. So farmers are growing cover crops which are available, inexpensive, and help to keep the soil fertile for many years. Cover crops protect the soil…
Soil Conservation on Don Maximo Escobar’s Farm
Two years ago Don Maximo Escobar, a farmer from Pata Galana, Guatemala, began to farm an abandoned plot of land on a very steep hillside. He had several goals. He hoped to farm the land using almost no dangerous chemical fertilizers or pesticides. He wanted to prevent or limit soil erosion but he knew that…
Growing Fruit
Compost for fruit trees Fruit trees grow best in deep, fertile, well-drained soils. Most fruit trees need to be fed with additional nutrients when they are growing. In poor soils it is good to provide nutrients from time to time beginning at planting. In deep, fertile soils, this is only necessary when the fruit tree…
Increase yield with better seed potatoes
Let us think for a few minutes about potatoes and how you might get a higher yield from your potato plants. Two types of seed As you may know, there are two kinds of seed that will produce a crop of potatoes. One kind is the potato tuber itself or even a piece of the…
How Trees Help Crops
Perhaps you or other farmers in your region practice a type of farming called slash and burn (shifting cultivation). This is done by cutting down the forest, burning the trees, and planting crops on the land the trees were on. After a few growing seasons, shrubs and trees are allowed to grow again while another…
The Wang Wun Shi family farm: A success story. (Part C)
HOST: When Wang Wun Shi started farming, he was very poor, but after only four years and a lot of hard work, this Chinese farmer, with the help of his wife and family, has become a leader in his community. Some of Wang’s cropping practices On his small farm, Wang has 100 loquat and 200…