I have a question… I have been doing natural rice farming. Recently I just noticed while I was planting rice in the paddy, looking at weeds starting to grow all over the field. I was picking those weeds without much thought but at one point it struck me,,,, and I asked myself why am I eliminating those weeds? I then noticed there are lot of information about no-till farming on the farm field but almost none about rice paddy. Even natural farmers are eliminating weeds one way the other in the rice paddy. My question is that how much of the weeds we need to eliminate and how much we leave them as it is. And weeds can help and support soil for rice?
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I have a question…
I have been doing natural rice farming.
Recently I just noticed while I was planting rice in the paddy, looking at weeds starting to grow all over the field. I was picking those weeds without much thought but at one point it struck me,,,, and I asked myself why am I eliminating those weeds?
I then noticed there are lot of information about no-till farming on the farm field but almost none about rice paddy.
Even natural farmers are eliminating weeds one way the other in the rice paddy.
My question is that how much of the weeds we need to eliminate and how much we leave them as it is. And weeds can help and support soil for rice?