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Happy New Day to us all! I hope someone here didn't wake up as stressed up as myself. For the next couple of weeks ahead, we are going to be working rigorously to harvest our rice🌾 and bean🫘 🫘 crops. The bean harvest is in succession; the plant doesn't produce all of its beans at the same time, unlike rice.
When we go for bean harvest, we pick up only the dry pods one after the other, taking them home in sacs. This is kept until harvest is completed before we then invite the milling machine to assist us to peel the beans from the pods. Before now, we have often done the peeling with a mortar and pestle.
We continue to pand the grains until the pods open up, before we then sort the beans out of the dirt's.
Harvest is in successions as not all the beans produce seeds at the same time, making us visit the farm at a weekly interval. Upon every visit, we pluck off only the dried grains, leaving room for the upcoming and maturing grains to produce too; these are subsequently picked up in a two- or three-week interval depending on how fast they are able to mature and dry up too.
For rice harvest, we were only able to cut some of it yesterday. The threshing and cleaning were all meant to be done yesterday so that we could take the grains home, but one or two things came up and we couldn't do that. We have begged a farmer who lived closer to the farm to keep an ear open in case he heard of people stealing on the farm at night.
We often wake up early enough in order to get some tangible work done before the sun rises.
Talking about how hot the sun can be
Look at it's effects on our guinea corn
The leaves are drying up fast, and even though this plant has grown really tall and has developed very well from the onset, the scourging sunnis is causing the leaves to dry up fast.
This will really affect the development of the seeds. The plant may not be able to produce well if the weather gets really bad as this. Although it has reached the flowering stage and has produced the pallets that will bear the sorghum seeds, the pallets may end up becoming empty if there is not enough atmospheric moisture to help it produce seeds.
While the rainfall pattern for the year was really low, I am still surprised that we are yet to have dew this year. The moisture from Dew drops often helps crops like this and our beans to complete their maturing process, but since there is no Dew yet and the sun is scourging, virtually every crop on the farm is struggling to survive. We can only hope for the best for these crops, even after their initial development was impressive.
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