Best bean cultivation
Beans are a legume that is cultivated for vegetables or forage. This meal can be cooked in the form of raw beans or dried beans. Its leaves are also eaten as animal feed by humans as well. Beans are widely cultivated in Mbeya, anthrax, arthritis, smoke, morocco and other regions.
Weather
It thrives in elevation of 1000 to 2000 meters from sea level. They can also be cultivated less than 1000 meters or more than 2000 meters from sea level.
Beans need sufficient rainfall during the planting and growing period. Beans also Need less moisture during flowering and dry periods to ripen and wither.
Best bean seed varieties
There are various types of excellent bean seeds such as canadian wonder, mushrooms, SUA, ilonga and lyamungo.
Planting
Beans are grown at the end of the rainy season to avoid being irrigated during flowering.
Sow your seeds in the hole about 2 to 4 cm deep in the soil depending on the type of soil in your field.
Space for planting
Beans should be planted at 40-60 centimeters in row and 8 to 15 cm from stem to stem.
Fertilizer
You can plant in a scattered garden manure. You can also best fertilize industrial fertilizers such as TSP at 50 -100 kg per acre.
When the plant starts flowering you can use N.P.K or SA fertilizer or in small quantities CAN or UREA Note When these beans exceed the beans they have more leaves than flowers and result in less yield.
Gardening
Weeding should be done early as soon as the beans germinate and once the field has weeds. The first weeding can be done between 8-12 days after the plant has germinated and the second weeding should take place on 20-30 days after the first weeding. Doing this helps to prevent the flowering of your beans from withering during planting so make sure you avoid weeding during flowering.
Insects
Bean worms are insects that attack young bean plants. These bean worms can cause up to 100 percent damage due to weather conditions - low humidity, low fertility, loss of bean varieties and diseases on the soil, repeated annual bean sprouts and bean varieties.
A good way to control bean worm is: -
Early planting
Spreading seeds such as endosufan, Acephate, Murtano before seeding in the ground. Doing this will help prevent bean worms and root causes.
Beans can also be attacked by various pests such as white bean flies and others that can be prevented by using various pesticides.
Diseases
The most common diseases are enemies in bean growth, horned spots, rust, bacterial and viral infections. Infected seeds, soil and bean waste are major sources of infection for all diseases except leaf rust disease.
Harvesting
Beans are harvested as soon as they are dry to dry and before the stalks are broken. Remove the bean stalks and do not blow them out of their pods.
in one acre you can get 600 to 1200 Kg of beans
Storage
After blowing and gently removing the dirt, let it dry in the sun for a day to ensure it is dry and free of moisture that would cause it to become fungus. Store them in bags, if they last longer without being eaten then make sure you store them with pesticides such as Lions, such as ACTELLIC DUST or MALATHION. or Use special grain storage bags. These bags contain special ones that help prevent pests.