TIME TO HARVEST ZEA MAYS

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Finally our Zea mays become an adult not more a baby. A cute sweet corn baby. It's about 70 days after my team getting so hard to plant sweet corn, finally our blood, sweat and tears profitable because it's harvest time. I am so excited to waiting time golden time.




So, here i'm going to share with you how i am observe to know the sweet corn already can harvest or not. Firstly, we can the physical shape of sweet corn which is getting bigger and matured already and we also can press smoothly the sweet corn and feel the corn.

this sweet corn are already mature and ready to harvest

the physical still not big enough and the corn still not fully yellowish


After a long day of harvesting, here what my team get
he is our first customer 

Alhamdullilah... that are lot of sweet corn was harvest

We sale the sweet corn about RM 10 in one plastic bag which contain about 6-7 of sweet corn based on the size also.



We just only got RM 170 for our profit plant sweet corn after all the sweet corn has been harvest. We are little bit upset because we could gain more profit but because of nature disaster like a has been attack with a pig and also has been attack by a group of monkey. But it's okay because in planting a fruit or vegetable or anything else we also need to share the sustenance with all the living things. We are also in the learning of this crop.

For your information we cannot let the plot without do anything after harvest time (if you don't want to continue plant any crop). so actually we need to destroy our crop and cut it into a smaller pieces and mix it with the soil after destroy planting bed. This is to ensure that all the soil get back all the nitrogen the have lost along with the planting process.If we do not want to do this we can easilt plan the Legume Cover Crops(LCC).






So, that are how my activity as a plantation student in one whole sem. Thus, its show our filed work (FPA400) are done.




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