How to Grow Buckwheat for High Yields? A Detailed Guide to the Latest Cultivation Techniques
As a relatively important grain crop in China, buckwheat has a wide planting area and market demand in China. Buckwheat has relatively high nutritional value, so the planting area is still expanding, and the demand for yield is also increasing. Now how to increase yield has become a major problem faced by many farmers. So how should buckwheat be grown to achieve high yields? Let's take a look together below!
1. Fine soil preparation
Soil preparation is an indispensable task before planting buckwheat. Because buckwheat requires crop rotation, we must first choose soil with sufficient fertility, normal drainage and irrigation, and the previous crop soil is best if it is legumes. Then we should increase the intensity of soil preparation, and shallow hoeing and shallow plowing should not be used. Because if the soil is improperly prepared and the soil becomes too alkaline, it is very unfavorable to the growth of buckwheat. Therefore, we should prepare the soil finely, improve the soil structure, eliminate harmful substances in the soil, improve soil permeability, create a good growing environment for buckwheat, and increase the seed-setting rate.
2. Reasonable sowing
Buckwheat is generally sown around spring and autumn each year. We should reasonably adjust the sowing time according to different regional environments. For example, if there is an alpine cold phenomenon, then the sowing time should be appropriately advanced, and we should try our best to ensure that harvesting can be carried out before frost arrives, to prevent low temperatures from causing frost damage to buckwheat and reducing yield. The sowing methods are generally mainly drilling and dibbling. Reasonable sowing can improve the germination ability of seeds, enhance the root growth ability of seedlings, and reduce lodging. Then control the sowing rate at 3kg/mu, and after sowing, do a good job of covering the seeds, improve the soil's moisture retention capacity, and promote emergence.
3. Scientific fertilization
Many friends generally choose to lightly prepare the soil after harvesting the previous crop and then start sowing, without deep plowing or applying base fertilizer. In this way, the nutritional needs for buckwheat growth cannot be fully met. To achieve high yields of buckwheat, sufficient base fertilizer must be applied and topdressing must be done well. While ensuring sufficient base fertilizer, after the seedlings emerge, topdressing should be combined with intertillage about two times. Then, according to the growth stages of buckwheat, do a good job of topdressing. For example, during important periods such as the flowering stage and seed-setting stage, topdress in time to ensure sufficient nutrition. However, pay attention to the amount of fertilizers such as nitrogen fertilizer, which must never be excessive, to prevent excessive vegetative growth of buckwheat.
4. Artificial pollination
Buckwheat is a cross-pollinated plant. If it relies on self-pollination, the amount of pollen is insufficient, the pollination seed-setting rate is also very low, and its yield will naturally be relatively low. Therefore, when planting buckwheat, we should pay attention to doing a good job of artificial pollination. Improve the pollination seed-setting rate of buckwheat. After buckwheat enters the full flowering stage, start driving pollen on sunny mornings, lasting about 5 days. Or bees can also be released for pollination. These can effectively improve the seed-setting rate. When the seed-setting rate rises, its yield will of course also increase.
The above is a brief introduction to how to grow buckwheat for high yields. In addition to doing a good job in the above four aspects, we should also strengthen management work, which can further increase yield and ensure high yields of buckwheat. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. Thank you for reading and supporting.