Replanting My Beans: Overcoming Poor Germination and Bird Interference with Seedlings

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Seedling growth depends on so many factors like the quality of seeds, rainfall and the land but there are other factors outside this scope with pest activities in farms causing poor seedling germination more than some of these factors, some birds are good experts in digging up things so no matter you dig up the ground plants the seeds this birds always find a way to it, so how do farmers mitigate their activity?

My experience with these birds during the planting

I have had so many hurtful experiences with these birds when planting crops like maize, rice and beans with it becoming a common thing whenever I plant maize resulting in planting being done more than once just to replace the seeds that the beans birds have eaten until the birds eventually stop because at some point the birds eventually turn their face away from my farm to someone else's farm but in cases when the birds don't turn away easily we can also mix the seeds with chemicals that makes the seed inedible for the birds to feed on.

I have also noticed something new from their most recent activities that also explains why it is so easy for the birds to trace every hole we've planted in without stress that is the sign that is left behind after planting but in situations when there is rainfall almost immediately after the seeds have been planted then the birds won't be able to trace the spots where the seeds were planted.

Short droughts make the seed dormant far too long inviting birds even more and that's the reason why the beans that were planted to so much hit but now everything should be better the weather conditions have changed with the increased rain probability daily.

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