How can the water table be low with two rivers flowing, what kind of soil do you have in that area. Heavy clay or water proof substrate lies below?
Planting habits. I also farm and I get to communicate with the local population. Not communicate but eat their heads. Arid zone, rain fed. We were thinking of shifting the wheat planting season a bit, but no luck. Heat starts on time and whatever the condition of the wheat, it starts to ripen. It was a self defeating exercise. This year the wheat is stunted with husk like grains due to lack of rains. Rains are due on Sunday but I do not think there is enough time for the wheat to grow or produce fat grains this season.
Same thing has been happening with our Monsoons crop of corn and other grains for now lets see, three years and winter crop also has been in the doldrums for last three years.
If I say Climate Change then the topic seems to enter politics as to why, I do not understand. As gardeners and farmers we all know Climate change is going on. So, when are we going to face the truth?
Lets see if I can get away with the truth with ancient wizened grownups. One mountain with a complete ecological system, not a field but a mountain and it has one cockroach hiding in a deep burrow. What happens to the mountain and its ecological system if we in order to kill that cockroach drop a bunker buster on it? Are we not taking the axe to our own feet? Multiply it logarithmically with the number of mountains hiding cockroaches and come to your own conclusions.
Crocodile tears is all we can shed.
Regards,
Arif.
