FIELD NOTES · Banana
Wet ground brings back hand-weeding
Kharif 2026
Weeds were becoming a problem again, but the ground was still too wet to run the rotavator. We returned to hand-weeding, concentrating on roughly 2 ft around each plant for this round.
The wider mechanical pass would wait until the ground dried.
What followed
· Later follow-up
Manual weed clearing was continuing as another feeding round began.