October 7, 2024

1 thought on “A never-ending season

  1. I am a rice farmer from Poongulam Village, Nannilam Taluk, Thiruvarur District, Tamilnadu. I read with great interest the LTCCE project. It defies the principle that monocropping is detrimental to the soil health. As a rice farmer, I am curious to get your clarification on the following.
    a) Wouldn’t the soil be depleted of various nutrients that rice takes for its growth?
    b) Successive rice crop could host the disease-causing bacteria and continue to host rice pests. How do you address these issues?
    c) While harvesting at least a small quantity of grain might spill on the field. When you grow a different rice variety under the irrigated condition, wouldn’t this spilt grain sprout & cause admixture of various rice varieties?
    d) After the harvest how long you take to transplant the next crop?
    e) Do you always grow short duration varieties with 110-115 days?
    f) Lastly, can this kind of perpetual rice growing be practised by farmers like me?

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