Anton
Member
Another 26 days to harvest...and will replanting within a week
Rice farm for sale
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burr elm
Member
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Hi Anton, is this the second crop this year.
I and other members would I am sure like to understand more on your production of rice, for instance what fertilizer quantities, and ground preparation prior to replanting etc.
I and other members would I am sure like to understand more on your production of rice, for instance what fertilizer quantities, and ground preparation prior to replanting etc.
Anton
Member
We use rotary tiller to plough the land twice, once dry and another wet and puddling....then another one run to smoothen the field...
Fertilizer is divided into 3 portion totalling about 1200 kg of NPK 15/15/15 or about 200kg of N, 100kg of P and 100kg of K.
Fungicide is applied 20 days after replanting and insecticide 45 days after replanting....watchout for rats around 45 days and boar around 60 days after replanting...the seeds start to fill around 60-75 days and hardened from 75-100 days...
Birds are big nuisance around 60-80 days...
Please ask further cause i don't know what to discuss without input from forum
RushesToo
Member
- Location
- Fingringhoe
It would be really good if you have pictures of the crop over the 100 days, just to give us an idea how fast it grows and what it looks like at different stages of development.
Do you have fields at many different stages of development, or are they all the same age. Has this got to do with keeping disease and animals under control?
Thanks!
Do you have fields at many different stages of development, or are they all the same age. Has this got to do with keeping disease and animals under control?
Thanks!
Anton
Member
We have to plant them all at the same time as to control pest and diseases, yes because we don't have winter here....but this request is getting more and more frequent especially from fellow farmers...and i was thinking of taking pictures everyweek for next crop...what does our forum have in mind?
Martyn
Member
- Location
- South west
Just to say great thread. Very interesting the more details on growing rice and pics the better.
burr elm
Member
- Location
- Bedfordshire
As Martyn says more pictures the better, from start to finished of product would be great, some detailed pics of the machinery and handling/drying equipment.
brynseiri
Member
- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
Do you get poisonous snakes in the rice fields? Are they a problem to workers on your farm?
Anton
Member
Dear God, NO, hahaha...no snake.
Anton
Member
But today, we did have very troublesome attacks from starlings/ small birds eating paddy.
Anybody got a permanent solution for bird pest?
Suffolk Serf
Member
- Location
- Bury/Thetford
I don't know of a permenent solution to birds but when the sun isn't too bright, ideally at dawn and dusk, we have had a lot of success with a laser beam torch, sold in the UK as the "Portek Laser strike". We simply keep moving this along the ground up to the birds and they get up and fly off. Then we can keep scaring them out of their roosts.
As with most things in life, effort in gives rewards out.
As with most things in life, effort in gives rewards out.
ehh there is over 400 types of snakes in indonesia and half a dozen are deadly to humans?
Anton
Member
Landy Nick
Member
People pay good money to put one of those in a birdcage over here. What species are they.
brynseiri
Member
- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
Perhaps there is one snake.....
Is that the one eyed trouserd one?
i think he meant a snake in the grass
brynseiri
Member
- Location
- Conwy, North Wales
The type who'd meet you at the airport with his fellow gangsters, take you to the jungle where they'd torture you mercilessly until they had extracted every penny out of you they could and then cut your throat and leave you in a ditch.