Profitable Maize farming: How to Make 45 bags per acre
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Step by step guide to maize planting
Maize is Uganda’s stable diet. It is costly crop to grow, costing the farmer around Shilings 2.5M/acre for one to achieve good yields.
Below is a step by step guide for maize farming.
Step 1: Field selection
Select a field that supports maize variety you intend to plant. Identify the altitude, soil type, climate of the place before planting. Maize is a sub-tropical crop and the altitude at which it is grown is significant to its potential to mature.
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Well drained soil is also very necessary.
Step 2: Seed-bed preparation
The aim of this is to achieve a deep, loose soils. Maize is a free-adopting plant so there need to be no restriction on root development in the early stages.
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Crops that strive with compacted soil then toil to mature and achieve excellent yield.
Step 3: Drilling and sowing
Maize seed should be drilled to a uniform midst and into moisture. Maize requires drilling slowly with one seed delivered every 10-12cm.
Step 4: Choosing a variety
Choose a variety of seed that suits the altitude and soil type. This will enable your get high yield.
Step 5: Weed control
Once drilled, all fields should earn a pre-emergent herbicide to combat weeds. This will also mean post-emergence herbicides have limited work to do. Don’t delay weed control. Once they surpass the 2-leaf stage they will start out-competing maize. Maize is very poor at struggling with weeds in its earliest stages of development so this must be avoided.
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Step 6: Crop nutrition
Nitrogen is the driver and a lot of crops just don’t get enough because of an over-estimation of what the soil can provide.
Ideally, the application of nitrogen should be split with 75% DAP in the seedbed and the remaining 25% Top dressing applied at the 1-3 leaf stage. This will help the crop get through its yellow phase often seen at early developmen.
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Step 7: Pests and diseases
In Kenya pests diseases isn’t a big problem. Leaf rust is the main disease which requires to be sprayed every 2-3 weeks until the disease disappears
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