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The many years of growing rice grains have taught me a lot about how best we can grow different species of rice to achieve the best result and a quality harvest 🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾. The proper timing for planting, the application of herbicides for weed control, what kind of herbicide is good for our plant and that it is equally environmentally friendly, the proper timing for harvest, storage, and even how to process your grain for final consumption.
All along we still acquire new knowledge and findings, which I haven't ceased to share with the community. For this year, every passing day draws us closer to the harvest of rice, and today we are here again to both check on the rice and what to do to prepare for harvest.
Our other fellow farm neighbors have begun their harvest, and we are all working collectively to assist each other. Harvesting can sometimes be a tedious task and time-consuming, such that having many hands working on a portion of rice fields makes everything faster. A division of labor kind of setting.
There are often a lot of things to be done, from cutting to beating and bagging. A single person working will take much longer to accomplish their work. We often invite one another to join hands on neighbors farms and assist each other with harvest.
For today I have been learning about what species of rice grains is best for us to grow and obtain optimum yield. Each of the species of rice often comes with its own advantages and disadvantages.
Take a look at this short-grain rice. The plant is often very short and carries a moderate amount of grain. It doesn't overgrow and falls into the mud as one of the major challenges we often face during harvest. When dried rice grains fall into the mud, the seeds get robbed in the mud, and it becomes difficult to harvest or sort the rice grains.
If you do not want to have such experience when growing rice, the short grain rice is best for planting.
Now take a look at the long-grain rice. The plant often overgrows, and sometimes it is up to an average human height.
While this overgrows, it also carries a lot of rice grains and produces more grains than the short grain. Once this happens, the entire plant falls flat on the ground from the weight of the grains it carries.
And if the ground contains a lot of mud water, then you will encounter a lot of challenges harvesting and sorting it from the dirt.
For better yield, this long grain rice is the best, but for ease of harvest, the short grain rice is recommendable.
Here are the differences in grain size, both the long and short grains.
The obvious difference in grain length.
By the end of the year, I may equally cook and taste both grains separately to determine which one has a better taste for food consumption. That will also help you to decide which grains you will prefer to grow.
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Knowing the specie of rice to plant is very necessary so to know the months to expect the harvesting.