Cassava Farms , Chemical damage/effectiveness and proper use

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It was past midday and the sun was already too hot when we got to our cassava farm yesterday. We wanted to check on the effectiveness of the chemicals we have used some 14days ago here to clear weed in the farms.

I have already talked about proper use of these moderately hazardous chemicals in the past in order to both protect our ecosystem and crops. We all know how important it is to watch out for the earth even while we go about mechanized farming and industrialization in order to produce more crops.

I could barely keep my eyes open, but since today will be a busy day in another farm I had to join my friend to come check on the farm. We may not find the opportunity to do so later. I remember how some long delay to come harvest soya beans led to the complete loss of our soya beans crops. Regardless of schedule I now learn how to manage time in the farm and lookout for crops that needs emergency assistance. Actually whenever you engage in planting variety of crops like this, alot of work for the different crops calls for our attention almost at thesame time and not making the wise decision at a time can lead to the loss of your crops completely.

You can check out this blog for healthy ways on how to moderate chemical use on our farms.

The chemical effect is expected to show significant sign of action from day 7 of the application of the chemical if it were in the raining season. Most times grasses also require rainfall or some amount of moisture to absorb the Herbicide we spray.

We weren't fortunate enough to apply the herbicides at the right time due to poor time management for each farm work. And as it is very important that the weeds be cleared from the farm to keep it clean at this time of the year, we had no choice but to apply the chemical at this time of the year when the rain has stopped.

The cassava has a 50/50 chance of surviving too as availability of moisture also aid the cassava from reacting to the chemicals sprayed on the weeds. It is not possible to spray the farm where both weed are cassava are equal in growth or where the weeds has overgrown our cassava without having some of the chemicals affect the cassava. While the weeds are dying the crops can equally die to.

Although we took some appropriate measure to reduce severe damage on the crops. Diluting the chemical and reducing it's concentration often help us out a lot. Some of the cassava are already showing signs of yellowing of leaves and the a good percentage of the weeds are dead and drying out.

It's so surprising fo see that we aren't getting any dews after the raining season. Dews are another source of moisture that had often helps our crops to produce further whenever the rains stops. Some crops depends on the this source to complete maturity and if our our cassava can get some dew drops they would suevive better .

We had to take a further risk to spray the farm and expect whatever outcome we get rather than leave it to he mercy of bush fire. It has to just survive one calamity. For now the cassava is still holding up as the grasses are dying and giving away.