Pick and Write [Agricultural Word]👉#12

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Cultivation is a term many people are familiar with but they mostly don't fully understand the whole thing. They usually mistake cultivation for planting seeds. Planting seeds is an instantaneous act of cultivation but there is much more to cultivation.

The first step in the cultivation process comes well before planting any seeds, it is preparing your soil. You cannot just drop seeds on the ground, you first need to prepare the soil by breaking it up and tilling it with a hoe until it is loose. Depending on how long it has been since anyone worked on the ground it may take several hours of using a hoe before the ground becomes loose enough for you to start planting any seeds. So that means the cultivation process actually begins before you actually begin farming by breaking, tilling and preparing the soil.

When it comes to maintaining your crops after they have been planted, it seems that you have even more work than before. You might end up going back to the same field to check on and adjust your crop on numerous occasions. The same thing happens with weeds, they begin to compete right away and if you leave them alone, they will take over easily without you even knowing it. So each time you visit your field, you will need to remove them, sometimes just hours after removing them previously.

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The way that your soil reacts to rain or sun is another thing that you must work with when you're cultivating your crops. Rain on your soil can cause it to clump together, and excessive heat from the sun can dry out and crack your soil. Cultivators are always reacting to these conditions and not necessarily controlling them because no one is God and we don't have control over weather. They are negotiating with the field and mother nature all the time.

There is always an interesting concept to me and it's about the appearance of fields. To the average observer, a field appears as four walls without any regard to the numerous visits to that field, small adjustments made to the field and frequent returns to that field. There's a saying, that if you have not sat on the throne, you might think rulling a nation is easy because all you see is someone on the seat giving commands and getting luxury treatment. It's far more complicated and that's how the farm work really is.

So my real definition for a cultivator is a person who does not leave a field alone regardless of how good it appears, because good crops are the result of potential issues that didn't occur or have not yet occurred.

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