How to Cultivate Rice Crops Properly and Properly
8 Methods in Rice Cultivation
To get quality rice products you must know how to cultivate rice properly and correctly. The first thing you must have is the sincerity to cultivate this plant, by dedicating your energy and mind 100% to cultivate this plant, you will get abundant crops.
In order to produce abundant rice plants, you can learn how. Here are the steps you must follow.
Soil Processing for Rice
The first step before planting rice is to clear the land to be planted. Clean a variety of weed plants such as grasses, shrubs and other things that might interfere with the development of rice plants. Preparing a good planting medium for plants will promote growth well.
After clearing the land of wild plants the next step is to provide water flow to the land. This process aims to loosen the soil so that it is easy to plow using traditional or modern tools.
After planting becomes loose, flood the land with water until it reaches a height of 5-10 cm. How to adjust the water level can be by opening and closing access to exit the water at the irrigation door. Let the area sit for 2 weeks so that toxins on the soil become neutral and also the condition of the soil becomes muddy.
Choosing Superior and Quality Rice Seeds
So that rice yields can be abundant, of course, besides good cropping, you need superior rice seeds. To find out the good rice seeds you can find out the following way.
- Soak some rice seeds that will be planted with water for about 2 hours.
2.Place the seeds that have been soaked above the water that has been soaked with water. Then count how many rice seeds have been soaked, how many can sprout. If the sprouts come out to 90%, it means that the rice seeds have good quality.
Sowing Rice Seeds in the Land
After having good rice seeds, the next step is to sow the seeds on the planting land. To sow rice seeds you can do this by following the following steps.
1.Soak the rice seeds that will be sown for a day and a night, drain and leave for 2 days until the seed sprouts.
2.Prepare land for sowing rice seeds around 500 m2 for 1 hectare of paddy fields. Try to keep the land used to sow rice to keep it runny and muddy.
3.Give Urea fertilizer plus 10 grams of TSP for 1 m2 of nursery area.
4.Plant rice seeds that have germinated earlier in the prepared nursery. The way to plant rice seeds is to spread the seeds evenly on the seeding area.
How to grow rice
The next stage is to plant seeds that have been sown into the rice fields that have been prepared. The way to grow rice is to move seedlings into the rice fields. Here are the steps.
One of the characteristics of rice seeds that are ready for planting is to have leaves of two to three strands and are approximately 2 weeks old.
How to plant rice seeds can be done in a single or double way. For one hole, one or two rice plants can be filled.
The process of planting a good rice seed is to make the soil stagnant with water while the depth of seedling planting is about 1-1.5 cm. Not too deep and position the roots as they form letters (L), this is done so that they can grow perfectly.
Providing Fertilizers in Rice Plants
Providing fertilizer is a very important thing to do. Because without a good fertilizer, rice plants will be difficult to grow perfectly and of course the harvest cannot be maximized. The following are the dosages and ways to provide good fertilizer for rice cultivation.
For the first fertilization you can do when the rice is 7-15 days after planting. You can use Urea and TSP fertilizers that are mixed with a dose of about 100: 50 Kg / ha or can be adjusted to the conditions of the plant.
For fertilizer at stage two, it can be done when rice plants are 25-30 days old. Use Urea type fertilizer 50 Kg / ha and Phonska 100 Kg / ha.
The last process of milling can be done when the plants are 40-45 days old. You can use Urea fertilizer mixed with Za with a ratio of 50: 50 Kg / ha.
Harvest Rice
This is the time most awaited by farmers, namely the harvest of rice. The sign of the rice plant ready to be harvested is that the color of the grain has begun to turn yellow, the fruit branch has begun to bend down because it is filled with rice. The process of harvesting rice can be done in a traditional way using a sickle or in a modern way that uses automatic machines.
To reduce losses at harvest, try to harvest rice immediately because if the age of rice is too old, the rice seeds will fall out. That is the process of cultivating rice plants which is quite long, therefore we must appreciate this food do not throw it away or overdo it in cooking so that it is wasted. In addition, if many people plant this plant, it is certain that Indonesia will be able to surplus rice stocks.