It's a beautiful Sunday morning and I am up already. We are grateful for the gift if life, strength and health to go about our daily Activities. Talking about activities, yesterday we had continued the planting of more rice grains in our farmland. Growing of rice takes due diligence, whenever yh season for planting rice comes, we often leave out a lot of other activities to focus on that. Compared to planting corn or any other crops, working in rice field is one of the time consuming exercise out there. Planting of rice is even faster than transplanting in the swamps, but most times before we plant a good portion of the field there would have been series of consecutive downpour that will soak the submerge the field making us to have no other choice but to switch from planting to transplanting.
Our rice seedlings are continuously growing on the fields here waiting for the day we will begin transplanting them.
The rice we are currently planting and transplanting is the 5months lifecycle rice. We do not want to waste much time growing crops that takes longer time and periods to grow. We have gotten these other rice specie that produces as much food and in lesser lifecycle period and this year we decide to stick to growing this rather than growing varieties which we experimented last farming season. This is the short grain rice. The long grain rice are the ones that take that much time to produce their food, there are not much time and resources to waste, growing and comparing rice plants. We have just chosen this specie because it is a good one and we are sticking to it.
If you know me well and follow my blog consistently you will understand how much I often emphasize on planting quality seeds/specie of crops, there is no point wasting ones time in growing something that wouldn't give much yield or will get diseases in the end. Ok our way back we are already contemplating on uprooting the entire diseases okro plants to grow something else on that field
Although the plants are sick already they are still producing more flowers here and there, the pestilence has only affected the leaves causing them to wither and die off but the produce itself were not affected. The okro fruits still looked healthy. They are even very much healthy for consumption as we took some home to make supper with it. We wanted to be sure that the sickness that affected the plant doesn't won't have any effect on the fruits and cause any challenge for us that will eat of the okro.
All of us as local farmers here have no idea/understand of what disease might have affected this crops or even how to prevent it, this is where book knowledge is needed to diagnose these crops, see if the product from this diseased looking plants will have effect on humans and how to prevent future occurrence for better yield and fo avoid losses. Harvest was meant to be at least 5times on these crops before they die off but we have only done a first harvest before this came up.
Remember that to prevent this we have earlier applied some pesticide when we notice a condition in the other veggies, but I guess that such wasn't enough to prevent this occurrence and it is what it is today.
