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Chapter 205 - Chapter 205: Watermelon Planting

[Today's Intel: Continuous cropping should be avoided for watermelons. Old farmers often say, "Rotate your watermelon fields, and they'll get sweeter every year." Behind this is an unseen war between the crop and the soil...

Zhou Village has 1,220 mu of arable land, averaging one mu per person. Among this, the 400 mu in the eastern part of the village have been continuously cropped for many years. The soil suffers from pathogen proliferation and nutritional imbalance, and the damage is deeply rooted and difficult to reverse.

The 820 mu of land in the western part of the village can be treated with high-temperature plastic film mulching, which can raise the temperature of the 20 cm tillage layer to over 55°C, achieving a sterilization rate of over 90%. Using a microbial agent package containing seven functional microbial groups, including Trichoderma and phosphate-solubilizing bacteria, is like inoculating the soil with a "vaccine" to rebuild its micro-ecological balance...]

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