Pre Season

Soil Preparation

Cotton plant is not very selective in terms of soil requirements. If temperature and humidity are convenient, it will grow in almost every soil. Soil cultivation is important in order to ensure that the seeds grown can be germinated, cultivated and rooted.

Soil preparation is necessary for good cotton production. But these present conditions in the economic level, it is necessary to spend to avoid excesses.

A good soil preparation, the clearing of previous plant residues of cotton to be cultivated, the treatment of the soil at a certain depth to ensure better ventilation and heating of the bed, the breakage of the hard layer, which may be under the soil to provide better air movement of the air, water and therefore the roots contains the necessary soil treatment to ensure better control of weeds, pests and diseases.

In some fields the soil is deeply profiled, but cotton roots can not go deeper than 25-35 cm. A hard layer formed at this depth of the earth.

This layer can be formed by the same depth (25-35 cm.) Of plowing for many years, and it is possible to accumulate and cure certain chemical substances, especially calcium carbonate (CaCO3) compounds, in a certain layer at excessive depths of soil, especially in poorly drained fields, It occurs.

This plate is called '' Plow Base '' or '' Base Stone ''. For a good cotton farming, it is necessary to break this layer with the aim of ensuring that plant roots are developed and therefore sufficient water and nutrients are removed from the soil.

This process is done with the so-called sub-blasting sub-soils. This tool is 50-60 sometimes 90 cm long without disturbing the upper structure of the soil. it can soften the soil to a depth. However, this practice needs to be done at a time when the soil is fairly dry (late summer). If the soil is moist (humid), the benefit desired from the subsoiler is not obtained.

The base blasting process should be repeated every 3 years on cotton monoculture fields.

The soil release time may vary depending on the crop rotation system, climatic condition, soil structure. Soil processing is usually done at depths of 10-25 cm. After buckwheat, in the cultivation of cotton, wheat after harvest, while the field is in the stubble, it should be plowed deep in the plow.

In the version made field leveling, it should be done with moldboard plow. Otherwise, the landscape of the field will be degraded. After the first rainfall falling in the fall, the cobblestone should be transported with a goble diskroot or cultivator at a depth of 10-15 cm in order to disintegrate the cakes, to take off the soil and to remove the weeds.
If cotton is thought to be planted on the backs, the backs should be made in the autumn. The rainy autumn and winter rains produce a good seed bed by pressing the soil of the ridges formed.

The first thing to do if cotton is added to the cotton again is to break the cotton stalks with the help of a handkerchief and to cover the soil with a plow 25-30 cm. to be buried deep.However, where the verticillium puffiness is a problem, the cotton stalks must be removed from the field. The subsequent operations are the same as the preparation of the soil following the wheat harvest.