Next up after tractoring the land came digging out the on-site resevoir which had been overgrown by weeds.
The resevoir is fed by a “seikia” or a shared irrigation system common in Ecuador where rivers are split off into canal-like things to farm certain areas.
My lot has rights to part of the “seikia”.
I had to hire an excavator truck to come and dig the resevoir out.
This guy charged $30 an hour. And he was finished in 4 hrs.
Total cost $120.
After that, next came the organic fertilizer of hen droppings and rice shells.
Two truck loads for my hectare (2.2 acres), each truck load had 9 cubic meters of material. Total heavy equipment rental prices for both loads to about $480. When you buy fertilizer in Ecuador, be sure it doesnt have too much wood mulch in it, and that it is HEN droppings (gallina) as chicken (pollo) droppings are not as good a quality.
After getting the fertilizer I had to pay 3 guys a total of $100 to spread it around, it took them about a day and a half.
See pic below.
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