5 Reasons Why Transplanted Seedlings Make For Better Yields

When done in the right way, farming can be a fulfilling and profitable profession. If you’re looking to improve your crop yields in the long run, it’s important to first understand and implement certain dos and don’ts into your farming practices.

Seedling transplantation is one procedure that you need to incorporate into your farming. Agricultural experts say that transplanted seedlings can bring with them a number of benefits.

The question arises, can transplanted seedlings help you achieve better crop yields? Just read on to find out more:

1. You’re supposed to transplant seedlings at an optimal stage of growth. If done at the right time, this process ensures that plants enjoy a higher survival rate and lower incidence of disease.
2. Because all the seedlings are raised in a nursery, you can maintain the purity of your land by de-weeding it beforehand. This means that your seedling have a better probability to thrive post transplantation.
3. When seeding your land in the traditional way, many of the seeds you’ve sown might not survive past the initial stage. However, when you choose to grow these seeds in a nursery, you end up using a lesser number of seeds due to optimal initial growing conditions. Your input costs can be lowered in this manner.
4. When you use transplanted seedlings, all your plants age evenly and can be harvested at one go. This is in contrast to traditionally sown plants, which grow in a haphazard manner—while some may be ready to harvest relatively soon, some can take their time to grow fully.
5. Transplanted crops have better root systems and grow quickly as opposed to traditionally seeded crops.

When you take the above reasons into account, transplanted seedlings are definitely the better choice. At Sneha Nursery, we use scientific techniques to nurture our seedlings, which can easily withstand transplantation shock.

If you have more questions about the methods we use, feel free to contact us on the number we’ve provided on our website.

Good quality seeds

After preparing the soil by ploughing, a farmer selects good quality seeds to sow. Clean and healthy seeds of a good variety are called good quality seeds.

Watch the video below to see how a farmer selects seeds.

SELECTION OF SEEDS

To select good quality seeds, keep all the seeds in a container filled with water. We observe most of the seeds sink at the bottom and some seeds float on water. The seeds damaged by microbes or insects become hollow and float on water. The seeds that sink in water are good quality seeds.

Sowing

After selecting good quality seeds, a farmer sows them. The process of scattering seeds in the soil is called sowing.

• Sowing can be done manually by hand or by using tools (agricultural implements).
• Scattering seeds by hand is called broadcasting.
• When seeds are scattered by hand, they cannot be sown with proper spacing and cannot be placed at proper depth.
• As a result, the seeds on the surface of the soil can be easily picked up by birds.
• Proper distance between the seeds is important to avoid over-crowding of plants. Spacing helps plants to get sufficient sunlight, nutrients, and water from the soil.