Back to Farming - Manual Sowing Paddy Seeds
After a week of cat and mouse run with the rain, we finally decided to carry on the sowing the paddy seeds. With the onset of monsoon, the entire villagers starts the paddy farming. All of them can been seen either on the fields or busy in market to get the best variety of paddy seeds. Our farming is completelly depends on rain. And rightly so #metoo get on the fields to get the sowing.
Sowing paddy seeds is entirely a manual process. I have already shared before about our ancestoral piece of land in middle of the jungle. I began our farming with the same fields. Last year, there was no farming due to rainfall deficit. It turned out to be green fields after a year time.
Sowing process is not an easy activity. Before we put the seeds on to the soil, firstly we need to plough the soil in a limited space. We do not need to plough the entire fields. We ploughed up the land at a specified place. It took the animals to complete 17 rounds to plugging up the field.
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Once the ploughing is done, still we need to wait to sow the seeds. Before sowing, we need to have the levelling the soil. And also to extract all the unwanted grasses, that comes out due to plugging the fields.
While the men were at work, doing all the field work, I went to the market to get the seeds. I brought it eaelier to save time. It is 25kg packets and yield a good production. The packets were emptied in a separate pot. This helps in putting the seeds easily.
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The sowing the seeds is again a manual process. I thought it is direct placing each of them into the soil, but the sowing requires spreading out the seeds in a specific way. It ensures that seeds were spread in each part of the ploughed soil.
Soon the fields were covered with seeds all over the place. The barren soil were covered with minute seeds particle. However there is still a risk of being consumed by birds. Means we can't let the seeds to be exposed to birds and other animal.
So to hide them, and protect the sowing, we need to cover them with the soil itself. It is again a manual process, where we put the loosened soil and moved with hands to cover or the seeds with the soil.
It is a tough job as, it required good amount of effort to cover the entire sowing areas, also the person remain in bend position. But somehow it was quickly managed in my case. I was also involved a bot in getting the seeds covered.
The spreading of soil allows the seeds to remain within the soil. Now we let them to grow for another 15 days. Till the time we must depend of rain for adequate watering of the seeds. A little heavy rain may wash away the entire efforts. Finally the fields will look like this.
This year we are expecting a good harvest, with good rainfall.in sight and not like last year where we were in loss due to drought. Also this is my sole experince in farming. I have another fields where I will be going to do all the activity.
Keep waiting for some soil fun while farming in coming days.
Curious, I thought that water favored the growth of the rice crop.
I'm glad that now they can grow it and not suffer so much from the weather conditions.
It was nice to see the whole process, I really appreciate it, even though it is hard, heavy work, I was quite relaxed seeing the greenery and the landscape. You have the particularity of always giving peace.
Blessings to you.
Water is essential for farming...and our farming compltelly depends upon seasonal rainfall...which is still playing cat and mouse. The fields needs to have proper moisture level to get the seeds sowed else a little sticky soul may spoil the crops....we are already late in sowing but looking at the weather pattern, we hope to get the things done properly.
I love the lush green area of my village , after spending so many years in cities this place now gives me immense peace and happiness....just looking to settle properly with some handy income..🙂
Hello dear friend @steemflow good day
How much previous work for the sowing of the rice seeds, I appreciate that you have shared the entire sowing process
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Yes..there are so many efforts involved in getting the final output. But a common people doesn't understand untill and unless they get to the bottom of the process...this is just begining and still many things involved till harvesting...hopefully I will bring and share each and everything .
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Thank you for sharing this process. Watching an empty field become a large growing bed, makes me smile. I can't wait to see the plants growing up, I hope you'll share the progress with us.
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Surely, I love to share how things unfolds in Villages. People should know the efforts put in by the farmer in growing crops....and what it takes before it reaches to the plate...
We hope to get good sapling out of this for further steps.
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Well done on your lifestyle on your land. The cow and bull are our source of survival and should be protected, since they provide milk and facilitate farming. You set a good example.
Greetings from the south coast of Africa.
We donhave tractors as well, which will Bing into the fields at later stage, when the paddy were sowed again in the fields. The entire fields needs to be ploughed up then. Hopefully I will share them..
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Ultimately getting back to roots for survival...thanks for the wishes...🙂
Good job 💯💪🏻😎. I hope you can have an excellent harvest!
Thanks...🙂 still a lot of process involved into it.
Nice one @steemflow congrats my friend
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It looks like a hard process. I wish you an abundant harvest!
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Thanks 🙂 it is very tough but you will love it once you start enjoying the soil...and ready to spoil yourself with mud and water.😄
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Thank you so much for sharing your rice-planting process! I've never seen it done in this way, so it's fascinating! I wish you a huge crop! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Great you love them...🙂 farming is fun if we do it right way but a little distraction.may hamper the production too...so needed to be more careful
Yes, indeed it can be a great deal of fun! Mindfulness and care are important for sure! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
This is the same thing as what we have practiced in our place, all of them are manual too. Such a hardworking one. God bless.
I guess the process is same for paddy..but many make use of technology and machines while many like to do the process manually for proper satisfaction.
Yeah, that's true. Doing it manually has a great assurance that the job is properly well done.
Thanks for explaining and showing photos of the processes before sowing paddy seeds. I hope that the birds can never eat it up. Bumper harvest in due time to you @stemflow. Best wishes.
The waiting game has just begun and it is always interesting....very important days as far as farmer are concerned...especially if it rains heavenly. ...need to manage quitely.
Wow good luck my friend with your sowing and growing
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Thanks @benthomaswwd for thr wishes and support, this year is quite tough time and looking forward to get the things done properly.
Wishing you all the best mate, life can be like that sometimes we just need to keep going it will all work out eventually tough times never last 😉
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This is a really nice post that outlines your process but I have a question, what happens when there's no farming - you mentioned the lack of rain - does this mean no income or do you have alterative sources? I'm just curious.
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Without rain our farming doesn't survive, farmers moves out of the Villages to neighbouring cities looking out for Mason or labor jobs to earn livlihood. As far as mine is concerned I am yet to figure out any alternate source of income...for the time being more dependent on #Hive . 🙂 hope this ends your curiousness.
I understand, clearly not a good situation. I hope your crop is a good one so you can bring in some revenue.
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I appreciate you sharing this, and it truly opens my eyes, especially since I come from an urban background. Your job is incredibly demanding, and you and your team should take pride in the work you do. I hope for favorable weather conditions this time, and may you have a plentiful harvest! 😊
damn that is a bunch of work there putting in the seeds manually and covering them again. I hope you will keep up with the progress of the fiel as I am curious!