FORESTRY
GENERAL FORESTRY
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Temperature
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Bird Populations
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Vegetative Cover
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Soil Moisture
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Detailed explanation-1: -Learning to recognize optimal soil moisture and weather conditions, grow and prepare healthy seedlings, properly prepare planting beds, and follow up with optimal irrigation, weed control, and plant protection are keys to successful transplanting and direct seeding.
Detailed explanation-2: -Environmental factors such as temperature, light, pH, and soil moisture are known to affect seed germination (Chachalis and Reddy 2000; Taylorson 1987). Burial depth of seed also affects seed germination and seedling emer-gence. Weed seedlings may emerge from the soil surface to 15 cm deep (Bello et al.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some of the challenges faced by direct-seeded rice systems are poor germination, need of more seed rate to compensate for poor emergence, weeds, and diseases.