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Before rice transplanting can be done certain things have to be in place and if they are not in place then it's either the work doesn't happen or work becomes slow and ineffective,like any other crop out there the more we take care of the crops the more likely they are to produce good harvest rice for instance can be planted directly into the farm without transplanting so long as the land isn't really and the seeds can survive in it until germination but we still see farmers who prefer cultivating it that way even at that

• i never really got grasps of why my dad actually preferred transplanting until I observed the growth activity from both planting systems and then I found out that one grows faster and better than the other and it also maximizes the seedlings better.

These tiny details go along way in deciding how much harvest we make from our farms there is a certain farm of mine that I would like to use as a reference to back this up.

• On that farm the maximum I had harvested from it was 4 bags of rice because I was planting directly into the farm without transplanting it though the land is swampy what I used to do was planting early before the rain hits the ground running and the land becomes difficult to plant on, that was the trend that I had followed until and unexpected change of plans happened,now last year the rainfall was a little bit irregular and when it began to rain it fell so heavily that within days the whole farm was filled with water and there was no way of planting directly so I had to transplant.i cleared the land applied herbicide and also prepared the seedlings on a nursery bed at the same time now while I was doing all this I also did something that's not really common with those farming rice of a large scale. I took my hoe and began to turn the ground upside down almost like cultivating the land only that the land is turned upside down and flat that way the grasses that had been taken care of by the herbicides together with the small once underneath the big tall grasses that had not been affected by the chemicals were all turned upside down down into the water that eventually rottens it into the soil and actually that's a big manure on its own we farmers call it green manure and this increases the soil nutrients and after which I started transplanting on it.

Well the result was that I ended up having my record number of bags harvested on that same farm which now stands at 7 bags with little work during the whole growth process because the weeds didn't grow back on time so I ended up weeding the grass just one time compared to two times the previous years.

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