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Duration: 00:06:37

Seed sorting by flotation

When farmers save their seeds for the next season, they sometimes have bad quality seeds because of insects and other diseases. Therefore floating out the bad seeds make sure that you‘re seeds are usable. Improving the seed quality is important if you want to use your own seeds. It is necessary to start your harvest […]

Cereals & Legumes

Duration: 00:14:16

Rice transplanting

With transplanting rice you have more harvest and a better control over weeds. Therefore it makes it easier to manage your crop. When you broadcast rice, weeds are a big problem. When you transplant rice your yield is going to be two to three times higher. Furthermore you need less seeds, so you are able […]

Cereals & Legumes

Duration: 00:07:07

Rice seed preservation

Most farmers save their own rice seeds for the following year. But they have to store it properly to keep it healthy and at high quality. Seeds are alive. For a good harvest, start with planting healthy seeds. Air and moisture will damage the seeds. When they are not stored the right way, they become […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:18:44

Managing soil fertility for healthy rice

For farmers it is important to know how to handle different fertilizer, to have a good and healthy rice harvest. A unhealthy harvest has fewer live and less organic matter. Water and nutrients drain away and are almost unreachable for the roots of the crops. Rice plants grow poorly, even with adding mineral fertilizer. Rice […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:10:22

Land preparation for rice

Preparing and levelling your land twice will help your field to be good and healthy. This will improve your harvest. In a field which is not levelled more weeds appear on the higher parts and you have to wait longer on the lowered parts, before you can start transplanting. Old seedlings tiller more poorly and […]

Cereals & Legumes

Duration: 00:06:22

Well dried seed is good seed

It is important to dry your seed properly. Therefore you can use a table, which gives you many advantages. Drying rice during the rain seasons can be a big problem. Storms and rain make it hard to dry seeds and the rice field. Therefore the seeds spoil and you don‘t get a good yield. You […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:17:49

The rice seedbed

When the rice is broadcast, many seeds are wasted. To protect them, you should make a seedbed two weeks before transplanting. Farmers often broadcast before the rain starts. But when the rain comes later, the seeds ruin in the soil and the farmers have to sow again. Transplanting Transplanting saves seeds, water and nutrients. Because […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:17:01

Effective weed management in rice

Weeds are a problem for farmers ,because they take water and nutrients so the rice plants get less. Therefore, it is important to know how to handle weed properly. Not like rice, many weeds die underwater. The weeds seeds are found in the soil and spread with wind and rinse water. Some weed seeds are […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Vegetables

Duration: 00:09:13

Managing aphids in beans and vegetables

Aphids are black or green, small insects. By sucking the juice of plants, the cause slow growth. Virus diseases can be transmitted by aphids, too. Living environment Aphids live in colonies. In sunshine, they shelter to remain under the leaves. When aphids are fully grown, some get wings to spread further. Aphids secrete sweet liquid. […]

Cereals & Legumes

Land management

Duration: 00:08:30

Direct seeded rice in dry conditions

With sowing direct seeded rice in lines, you can solve the problem, that during puddling there is too little water. This works in puddled fields and in dry conditions as well. Many farmers plough a few times before puddling, but puddling needs much rain. Because of the weather changes it rains later and there isn‘t […]

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