WET RICE CULTIVATION

Wet rice cultivation is practiced in many parts of the world. These places generally have high temperature, heavy rainfall, law lying land and clayey soil or fertile soil that encourages wet cultivation. High temperature is required to enable the rice seeds to crow and to germinate. Heavy rainfall is necessary because wet rice needs a lot of water for nice growing. Where rainfall is low, farmers respond by building ponds and wells to irrigate their fields.

Wet rice grows well on flat land that allows for flooding in the growing season, Thus, most of the rice growing areas are found on channel and land, However, wet rice cultivation can be practiced on slopes by cutting steps on them to create flat strips of land called low land area and terraced shifting cultivation. Wet rice grows best areas fields. The soil should also be fertile. In places where the soil is poor, the farmers respond by adding fertile.

Rice is usually planned in the rainy season but it can also be grown in the dry season if there's a sufficient supply of water, or the output will not be good at harvest time. The first stage in the process of rice growing is to prepare land for a seed.

After a few days of rain, the ground is soft enough to e soil. So the framers driver their oxen to the fields and begin sloughing and harrowing. Them they take the rice seeds from the sack which have been soaked and germinated a few days before land preparation to sow in the soft, wet soil. The rain and the warm sunshine make plants grow quickly. Before long they are big enough to be planted in the field. The formers pull the young rice or seedling from the soil and tie them in bundles. This is slow careful work. After that the bundles are carried to the ploughed fie and dropped along the row where they are Trans planted later then they start Trans planting when the seedlings grow a bit taller, the farmers start spraying the crop with insecticide or no need, during this growing period. Rice demands intensive care and full protection such as weeding adding animate manure, and irrigating.

After several months, the rain ends and the rice is ready for growing The yellow rice stalks are cut, tied in bundles and put in the sun to dry, Later they are spread into the pile on the threshing floor farmers drive the oxen back and forth over the stalks to loosen the grain from them. Then they toss the stalks, and the grains of rice fall into the threshing floor. Finally the grains of rice are gathered and carried in ox-carts to the barn to be stored.