30 tillers. This is the average tiller count of our Sampidao- a native, fragrant, soft rice variety. This is already an indicator of more yield, however, not all of it are productive tillers because of factor such as pest infestation. In Kanipaan, most of farmers did direct planting this cropping because of limited budget… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
When there are pests, we always think, “KILL THEM!!!”. But this cropping, “Tyangaw” or Rice bugs are more resilient. Recently, the rice field next to us, harvested ahead of us because his was direct planted and it early matured. His bugs transferred to our ripe plants. To save our crop we sprayed, anti bug chemicals… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
Last month was the peak of harvest for many farmers in Kanipaan, Palimbang including our 5.5 hectares land in RCF. We experienced delay in harvesting and threshing because there is shortage of harvesters. One time, we tried to hire harvesters from neighboring villages but we spent an extra cost for fetching them, meals, accommodation. After… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
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