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Figure 1.9. Rice drying in the sun.
recommended amount is two bags per hectare. Since the farm is only 0.207 ha, he
should apply 40 kg before transplanting and about 10 kg at panicle initiation. After
harvest and threshing Donio sun dries his tipasi by spreading it on a mat laid on the
area around the house or rice paddy, see Figure 1.9.
Maize Farming Practices. Donio's corn fields are also monocropped, that is, he
grows only one crop on the same land year after year. Donio plants maize three times a
year: January, May, and August. The last planting is usually affected by typhoons that
come during the last months of the year. Donio gets his maize seed from his previous
harvest, selecting the biggest and fullest bodied ears as seed sources.
He uses only the carabao drawn plow (Fig. 1.10) and harrow (Fig. 1.11) in prepar-
ing the soil for planting. While two or more plowings and several harrowings are
Figure 1.10. Donio with his plow.
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