The crops were about to ripen, yet the farmer ruined them, and many people don't know the reason behind it

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For farmers in mountainous areas, a season's crops are like their own children, carefully tended, fertilized, weeded, and they even have to keep an eye on the weather forecast often. However, a few days ago, the editor passed by a thriving sesame field in a mountain village and saw the veteran farmer Grandpa Han holding a large pair of scissors, snip, snip, snip, cutting off the sesame that was flowering, and the white sesame flowers fell all over the ground.

The editor thought Old Han was feuding with the farmer who owned the field and was sabotaging it, so he quickly shouted. It turned out he was topping his own sesame, and the editor was really sticking his nose into other people's business for nothing.

Grandpa Han said: In the past, sesame was grown and left to grow naturally and top itself (farmers in the mountainous areas of Luoyang call sesame stopping its growth "topping"). Later, the village's agricultural technician told everyone that sesame needs manual topping, and topping can increase the yield and also increase the oil extraction rate.

In sesame that has undergone manual topping, the sesame capsules at the top are relatively plumper. But sesame that has naturally topped not only has shriveled, small sesame capsules at the top, but the sesame seeds are even smaller and shriveled; even the sesame in the capsules below is insufficiently nourished and simply cannot produce oil.

The picture shows sesame that has naturally topped, and the sesame capsules at the top are small and shriveled. It seems that when farmers grow crops, the old traditions also need to be changed a bit, and they really do need to understand technology; otherwise, the grain will decrease in yield. Being a farmer is truly not easy.