Hi friend steemit all, hopefully always in good health, my post this time will share about rice harvest.
Harvesting of rice is the activity of farmers in the fields, one of which is done by the people of Gampong Gunci Sawang District, North Aceh, Aceh Province.
Many people in Sawang often cultivate paddy rice as the main livelihood in the field of agriculture to meet basic food needs for the sake of survival. Besides that they also do plantation routines such as areca nut, chocolate and others.
Paddy rice is one of the main activities that they certainly do the planting 2-3 times a year. Depending on the season and available water sources.
So when I visited the farmers, the seeds used by a farmer were hybrid rice seeds and the results were very good.
Hybrid rice varieties
It is one of the results of one's experiment by combining two or more different types of rice of the sires. That will produce a new rice. in the community itself (among farmers) the type of hybrid rice varieties are still often discussed or have problems about the weaknesses and advantages of the resulting hybrid rice varieties.
There are various types of hybrid rice, among others are: diamond 1, diamond 2, rokan, Adirasa1, Adirasa 64, H1, PP1, soon child B3, Sembada B9, SL 8 and SI 11.
A type of rice has weaknesses and advantages that are:
The disadvantages of hybrid rice are: having a very expensive price compared to the local varietal varieties ie the price of hybrid rice (40.000-45.000 / kg) and besides this type of rice can not be planted anymore or taken offspring because it will not be as good as the previous / ). While the advantages of hybrid rice that is: can produce 2 kalilipat of local rice that is able to produce 10-12 tons / ha, and have a good grain seeds, if cooked also produce rice that is pulen and fragrant.
√ Superior rice varieties
It is one of the experimental results of a person who combines / the result of crossing of local rice seeds namely IR varieties with Ceheran that will produce superior rice.
Type of superior rice there are various kinds, among others, namely: ciherang, IR-64, Cidasane, Cobogoh
√ Local rice varieties
This type of rice has its advantages and disadvantages in each region, difficult to adapt or adapt it long, can be safeguarded over and over without reducing previous results.
Able to produce 7-8ton / ha, not infrequently farmers to plant this type of rice because it has a short panicle and taste less good.
Types of local rice are various, among others: gropak (kulon progo-jogya), indramayu, dharma ayu, srimulih and andel jaran.
