agriculture tips

In our Agriculture for Everybody  blog series, we will explore "Choosing the Right Combination of Crops".  The farmers can use this as a filter to choose the right combination of crops.  The filter in this blog is "Single Harvest & Multiple Harvest Crops". What do I mean by Single Harvest & Multiple Harvest Crops? Any crop that provides harvest only for one time is considered Single Harvest Crop. For example, Paddy, Sugarcane, Banana, Teak, Groundnut etc Multiple Harvest Crops are those crops that provide multiple harvests and not just once. For example, Tomato, Coconut, Mango, Guava, Flowering Trees etc Is it necessity to go for only Single Harvest or Multiple Harvest Crops?  Does one exclude the other? Simply putting it, both are necessary. In a Single Harvest Crop, you may need to repeat the same activities (from sowing to harvesting) every time. In a Multiple Harvest Crop, the activities will almost be similar to Single Harvest Crop in the ...

In our Agriculture for Everybody  blog series, we are going to see how to choose the Right Number of Crops. We will approach the "Choosing the Right Number of Crops" topic in a slightly different way and the readers can choose the one which suits them best. The different approaches are namely Keeping the Area Fixed and the Numbers in a single Crop Variable Keeping the Numbers in a single Crop Fixed and the Area Variable Keeping the Tonnage / Money in Sight while keeping others variable We will discuss each of the topics in detail. Option 1: Keeping the Area Fixed and the Numbers in a single Crop Variable In this option, we keep the Area Fixed and allow the numbers in a Crop (specifically for trees, plants) to be variable. To make it easy for the readers, I am giving an example below: Lets assume a 250 Sq Ft (250 X 1) fixed area. In this, we can plant every 25 feet 1 Coconut Tree which comes to 10 or 11 Coconut Trees if we squeeze in 1 at the beginning and 1 at t...