Manual weeding of Rice Farm //What to know about mixed cropping, it's benefits and How to properly grow different crops together
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3.204 HBDManual weeding of Rice Farm //What to know about mixed cropping, it's benefits and How to properly grow different crops together
# Hello Hive  It's Tuesday morning, and we are already in the farm working. We want to pull up some weeds from the rice farm that are already growing and catching up with the crops. No prior ridging was done before the planting of the rice grains; that is the reason why weeds have grown fast and are fast catching up with the plant. Since the rice grains are still very young and tender, it is not advisable to apply herbicides on them. We have once done that before, and the herbicides affected the young plants so much that they withered and dried off as a result of the chemicals applied.  Before planting rice or any other crop, proper weed control must be done in order to prevent this kind of occurrence where we have to carry out this initial manual labor to keep away grasses from gender-growing plants. Once the crops have grown to a certain level, we can then apply moderately hazardous chemicals for weed control right before the plants start having grains.  Due to the unavailability of larger and fertile land space for farming, everyone tries to maximize every little available space; hence, we all practice mixed farming most of the time. Mixed farming has a lot of benefits for us, as it reduces the cost of farming in some ways. When crops are planted together, the applied chemicals, fertilizer, and all are utilized by the two different types of growing crops such that if they were planted separately on different fields, it would cost us more to apply chemicals or fertilizers to each.  The chemical we would be applying to this rice farm now will also control weeds for both the rice and the corn therein. One of the important things to know and learn about mixed cropping is that we have to study the lifecycle of each plant and time their growth stages such that the growth and presence of one crop will not affect that of the other. For instance, looking at how corn and rice were planted together here, the corn must be able to grow on time and get harvested before the rice entered its fertilization stage.  One thing we often do is to plant the corn first, probably a month or two before planting the rice. Corn takes at most 3 months to mature and another month before it gets dried and harvested. And this rice is equally meant to stay for just 3 months and probably a month too before it gets harvested. Planting the corn 2 months before adding the rice will make perfect timing for mixing the cropping of these two. Once we have concluded with this first weeding, in which we are only picking up the taller grasses, herbicides will be applied to the field in the coming days. Posted Using [INLEO](https://inleo.io/@monica-ene/manual-weeding-of-rice-farm-what-to-know-about-mixed-cropping-its-benefits-and-how-to-properly-grow-different-crops-together--j9g)
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