I went back
to maize today. It has completely dried out and is ready to be cut
down so the land can be cleared. There was talk of using machetes, but this sounded too dangerous. Fortunately a rotary chopper was
found. It does a similar job to a set of hair dresser’s clippers. While someone
ran the chopper down cutting two rows at a time, one of our team was either
side coaxing the stalks to fall away from the chopper with a couple of long
sticks. All the fallen maize then had to be shifted away from the row so it was
clear for the chopper to pass by again. It was a tough job physically and we
were all very tired by the end.
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| the dry maize |
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| the edge of the maize field, with half done |
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| every stalk of maize has to pick and moved away from the edge |
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| it was very tiring work! |
During the winter the field will have a rest, probably just with grass, and by next spring the field will be ready for another crop experiment.
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