EXPANDING THE RICE FIELD SLOWLY
Aug 30th, 2008 by CaptainB
THE ORIGINAL BUSH BEHIND AND NEWLY OPENED AREA
Since some 1 month ago before actually going to the the orphanage we have planned to open up some more land for planting rice. It is not an easy job to do it because the area that we must clean up is a hard thing to do. The bush to be cleaned up is full with such a thorny trees and the spike can be around cm on its length. Initially we must cut the small branches before we can cut down the bigger trunks. An extra careful work must be carried out for not getting the spikes into our flesh. It was once happened to me when we did a clean up earlier. At that time there were 22 spikes went into my hands and foots . It was so painful and it took a long time to recover from the pain. After cutting down the small and big trunks we left the little peaces on the ground and burn it. By doing so the thorn and spikes will be burned into ashes and not endangering the farmer when we are planting the soil tilting and planting the paddy. We were involving all of our bigger orphans during the weekend upon cleaning up the bush.
newly cleared bush
compared the finger and the thorns
cleared but still hard to be tilted by the tractor
softening the soil with “our mineral water ” ha ha ha
newly rich and fertile soil before being tilted by the tractor
newly opened thorny bush being made into rice field
Since it is a hard work , during this 3 weeks we are only able to add some 2000 M2, this is because we are also doing so many other things beside this land clearing. It has been fun and when we are seeing the newly made rice field , we are so happy ( even though the extension is not so big). We are planning to open the next plot of land for the next planting season ( may be about 1 Ha). Before doing it will be so reluctance to do it because of the thorns but when we are actually doing it the hard work will be quite easy especially if many of us are doing it together.