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    Prepare The Land For Planting

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    Lowland rice requires well-prepared soil that is weed-free, soft, and level to facilitate transplanting. Proper soil preparation involves mixing organic matter like rice straw to promote decomposition, leveling the field for uniform water distribution, and preventing water seepage. The land should be prepared at least two weeks before transplanting to ensure even growth and plant maturity.

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    Lowland rice requires well-prepared soil that is weed-free, soft, and level to facilitate transplanting. Proper soil preparation involves mixing organic matter like rice straw to promote decomposition, leveling the field for uniform water distribution, and preventing water seepage. The land should be prepared at least two weeks before transplanting to ensure even growth and plant maturity.

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    Lowland rice requires well-prepared soil that is weed-free, soft, and level to facilitate transplanting. Proper soil preparation involves mixing organic matter like rice straw to promote decomposition, leveling the field for uniform water distribution, and preventing water seepage. The land should be prepared at least two weeks before transplanting to ensure even growth and plant maturity.

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    Prepare the land for planting

    Lowland rice requires well puddled and well prepared soil . This
    ensures a soil surface that is weed free, soft and level to make
    transplanting easier. It also facilitates mixing of organic matter such as
    rice straw, weeds, stubbles with the soil which promotes decomposition.
    Proper soil preparation serves to level the field for uniform distribution of
    irrigateion, water, fertilizer and pesticides, it also prevent or minimizes
    water seepage from the field.
    If land preparation is not uniform, growth of plant is uneven
    causing variations of plant development and stage maturity, land
    preparation should be started at least two weeks before transplanting
    PLOWING
    PLOWING
     Is the process of breaking up the soil usually 15 cm deep to incorporate and cover
    inorganic matter. This can be accomplished with a power tiller or moldboard hitched
    to a carabao.
     To prepare the land for plowing, do the following:
    1. Remove from the field anything that may injure the plowmen or damage the
    implement.
    2. Cut tall grasses and remove stubbles that may interfere with plowing
    3. Flood the field 2- 7 days before plow to soften the soil. Keep the surface of the soil
    covered with water to avoid the soil from sticking to the plow. Keep the soil flooded
    with about 1 cm of water until the harrowing for 1 week to provide time to soften soil
    clods and allow weeds and stubbles to decompose
    HARROWING
    HARROWING
     Can be best accomplished by leaving just enough water in the field to
    expose the high and low spots.
     Can be done 2- 3 times depending upon the soil condition.
     Levelling in the field can be done by scraping the mud from high spots
    moving it to move to the low spots. A bamboo pole may be attached to
    the base of the harrow teeth to aid in levelling.
     To prevent the field from drying, and hardening allow enough water. If
    possible, wait for 7 to 10 days between 2 successive harrowing to allow
    more seed to germinate before finally turned under the soil and more
    time for plowed fresh organic matter to decompose
    ROTAVATION
     His method is employed with the use of a rotary tiller or rotavation
    drawn by a tractor. A rotary tiller may take the place of a plow and
    harrow because it changes the soil into fine tilt having sufficient depth.
    One or two rounds of rotavation followed by one harrowing are enough
    to have a preferably level field. Prepared land can be planted after 2 – 3
    days but chopped rice straw and weeds are not yet fully decomposed
    but already in the process of decomposition. Decomposition produces
    too much het an carbon dioxide which may cause the newly
    transplanted seedlings to exhibit slow growth.
    REPAIRING LEVEES
     Levees (dikes) should be prepared / repaired to help
    reduce seepage from the paddy. Levees that are properly
    repaired and plastered with mud are unfavourable to rat
    infestation and make it difficult for weeds and host plants
    or insects to get established
     The best time to fix the levee is after the first plowing
    because the upturned soil near the levees can be used in
    the work. The following steps in repairing the levees.
     1. clean the levees. Trim off the thick portions of the front and back of
    the levees. Look for the rat holes, breaks and soft the spots.
     2. Repair the levees by using soil that has been broken up during the
    first plowing for patching sorft spots and cracks. Break up and rebuild
    the portion of levees containing rat holes.
     3. Plaster the levee with mud making sure that all cracks are sealed
    properly.

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