Hello Hive
A happy new week to our friends onchain and homestead family in particular. How are we all doing, and hope that our farms and crops are flourishing well.
Today we are experiencing a little challenge with our crops especially our rice farms, while transplanting is currently going on, the rains have ceased for a period of about two weeks now causing all the swamp the rice is surviving in to dry up.
Transplanted rice seedlings needs water to survive. Usually during every farming year we often experience a short period of lack of rain. The local community and populace here calls it an "August break" as it is often experienced in the month of August. The rains started early this year as early as the month of March, it has remained consistent since that time until now that we entered the month of August.
Within the Months of June to August is when we often transplant rice. Depending on the amount of water the ground has absorbed. Transplanting is often a slow and gradual process that takes a lot of time and ever since we started we are yet to reach a conclusion. We still have one or two fields more that needs to be worked on.
The adverse effect of the lack of rain is being felt already, our rice seedlings are drying and dying off already.
Sometimes if the rain returns back early there is probability that the these very seedlings will come alive again but the longer the rains take to return, the more seedlings we lose. You can see how the entire filed gas turned brown with the seedlings all looking burnt. No body knows how long this August break will last.
The challenge remains now that if we lose our seedlings before the rains commenced we would get into a little trouble with replacing the seedlings to ensure that this rice field is cultivated this year. All the labour and expenses spent on the field will be lost if we lose these seedlings.
It is already too late for direct planting of grains and we are short of seedlings already. The seedlings we have grown are not enough to cover our rice field and now these ones are dying off. I just hope that we will have something to plant first before even thinking about how it will grow well and subsequent harvest. Every farming seasons comes with its own challenges but, sometimes they are similar and mimic the previous years and other times we face new confrontation and unique challenges, In the midst of it, still we are able grow the foods we eat.
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