Glory Nde’s Post

25 years ago, I remember my father-in-law and I were discussing how our neigbor was planting melons seeds every 9 inches. We both thought, man, he's got some courage to plant melons so far apart. We were planting them at 6 to 7 seven inches. Then we would have to come back later and have a choppin crew come thin our plant population down. But he saved his money by taking that risk and planted his to the population we all wanted. If one melon seed or two doesn't germinate or suffers some sort of pest damage you can have large skips in your field. Nowadays we are planting them every 15 to 16 inches. The seed is just ridiculously expensive. It's about 600 dollars an acre even with one seed every 15 inches lol. We have to find ways to remain competitive. The insane costs of doing business, and regulations that our competitors are not required to do, enjoy the opportunity to sell fruit and vegetables right next to ours. The challenge to put fruit and vegetables on the stores shelves against growers from other states and countries is extremely challenging. One plant every 16 inches scares me to death lol. It's nerve racking to plant melons as there are so few seeds and if you have the slightest issues you'll end up with huge skips in your field. But somehow we find a way, for now anyway.

Recently Debbie, our Co-founder, caught up with U Aye Than, a paddy farmer who’s been using Saltwater Seed Selection in the Irrawaddy River Delta. This seed selection is a low-cost, practical method that uses homemade saltwater solution (you know it’s salty enough when a duck egg floats) to separate and select the best rice seeds. Quality seeds sink to the bottom, half-full or blank seeds float to the surface, and the easily separated seeds allow farmers to grow higher quality paddy that can also increase their yields as much as 15 percent. While this technique is used around the world, the team at Proximity realized back in 2011 that not many farmers here knew about it and started introducing the practice whenever we met with them in their villages. Along with crop advisors showing it to farmers in person, these days we’ve been promoting the Saltwater method in a big way on our digital channels — and U Aye Than gives a glimpse of how widespread the practice has become in the Delta region. Take a listen to what he had to say: #paddyfarming #higheryields #proximitydesigns

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