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Good Afternoon friends and passionate homesteaders. Today we are all about the business of applying herbicides to our rice farm. Remember that there are different kinds of chemicals we can apply to our farms and it is a good practice to always read the labels of the each chemicals in order to follow the guidelines of how to apply these chemicals. These prevent both human health risk and environmental pollution resulting from excessive use of chemicals.

Each time we are carrying out this kind kind of spraying I often advise dad to use gloves and booths but you know just how stubborn our old parents can be.

These are the instructions on this chemical in labels for this very slasher. It is meant to be applied on farms before any planting activities is carried meaning that once a crop is already planted it can no longer be used in the farm. It has the potential to damage crops. Hence chemicals are in different types/categories of what they can be applied on, when best to use each or which type of crop they work can be effective for.

Hopefully by next week, planting of rice will commence. After application of herbicides we wait for the chemicals to work on the grasses for at least two weeks before planting commences.

For the fields where we have initially applied chemicals the grasses have wildered off already.
Our rice farming season with this is gradually getting started.

Earlier before now we have planted a different species that was introduced to us and that has been the one here which we have just concluded the manual weeding in its own field.

It is in the midst of the withered grasses like this that we often plant our grains. We don't wait for the grasses to get rotten or totally cleared out as it will serve as a cover for the planted grains against birds attack.