General soil health practices for Rice, Beans, and Maize Farming
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Soil health is a very important factor in the productivity of rice, beans and maize farming maintaining soil health ensures high yields, sustainable crop production, and resilience to disease, pest and climate challenges. In this post I will give a breakdown on soil health practices for each crop
Keeping the nutritional level of our farm lands consistent or better every farming year requires some important farming practices these practices include.
nutrient management, applying nutrients should be done by applying both organic and synthetic fertilizer reducing the common problem of nutrient Imbalance and soil pollution as a result of toxic reactions by some components of synthetic fertilizer.
crop rotation, breaks pest and disease cycle with a huge chances of balancing the soil nutrients at the same time.
organic matter addition, applying green or compost manure also increases the soil health, these manures can easily be gotten from our environment compost manure can easily be gotten from poultry farmers around us some might require you to pay some money for it while others just give out of good will and green manure can also be gotten from farms around and also from weeds around our farms. Decaying forms of this weed improves the soil health acting as manure that boost the soil nutrients.
Some practice show vast amount progress over a short time while others may take a while before it starts to improve the soil health and do farmers know if there's an improvement? The plants will grow and develop better compared to previous years.