This is actually my very first time of growing soya beans and I have learnt quite a lot in the few months of planting this. I will like to share my experience so far with the community. Soya beans is one of the richest proteinous grains you can find around here and it is a good thing that our soil and weather supports the growth of this grain.
There has been a debate on the perfect timing to plant soya beans and we were equally caught up in this dilemma. Soya beans takes maximally 4months for it's life cycle. But while planting you have to ensure that this ain't is planted when the weather is just right and proper for it's growth.
Soya Beans does not like too much of rain fall or heavy downpour at ita flowering and fertilization stage. As too much of rainfall can wash of the flower. Without this prior knowledge had Initially planted some soya beans in the month of May. For this we have giving some labourers to assist us with planting the soya beans.
Those soya beans planted them are at their flowering stage now as you can see above. Now the challenge here is that at this time of the year the rains are usually at it peak. The month of July and September are usually characterized by heavy rainfall in this part of the country compared to other location. Even among the states of a single country there can be different variations in weather conditions hence the appropriate time for planting soya beans in the north central is different from when they will plant them in the north.
This soya beans is about two months old, ik roughly about it 8weeks now. Hence it's appropriate to say that soya beans produces flower in about it's 6-8 weeks after planting.
While the labourers we have giving this planting task did a mediocre task of scantily planting the beans we decide to replant it again.
And late into the month of June we have replanted more soya beans. Those ones are barely a month old and still coming up.
By the time those ones will be 8weeks old and in the flowering stage, that will be in the month of August when the rainfall are minimal. Hence we assume that these newly planted soya have been planted in a fairly proper timing.
In summary we are practicing and experimenting the proper timing and best growth conditions for growing soya beans. This knowledge is important to myself and everyone who will be looking into large scale production of soya beans in the future.
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