Back to Harvest - A different way of harvesting paddy in my parents village | Human-powered Paddy Harvest activities

Hi Everyone...? Gardening
Good afternoon and how are you everyone, I hope you are all in good health always and all activities in gardening become a multiplier advantage for what has been proven, especially for those of us who live in rural areas who have difficulty improving the economy of the surrounding community .

Gardening is a special activity that is mostly done in the countryside besides reviving the earth's nature and greening our nature and ending with harvesting the produce we take care of. Yes, at the time of harvesting, there are many moments that can be done by working for wages, even with this it can reduce widespread unemployment in the community, the occurrence of poverty, by opening up employment opportunities as agriculture (Ricefield) and gardening to stabilize expenditure and income in a rural area. for parents and youth to cover all the needs for a source of life to increase the economy, this is very much needed.

Harvesting traditionally (manual labor) is an activity for thousands of years developed by our ancestral mothers to earn wages before the world's sophistication was launched with several machine technologies that made it easier for rice fields to find wages in the area, to be precise, not many crew members were employed when the harvest trade was very different from that of the previous century. now i am in the middle of the modern era of the world where previously they shifted some of our work to pay with the trado vehicle that i shared earlier with you who played in the profitable ricefield area with a faster and lighter working speed I hope you see in the previous article, here. When I harvest paddy in my husband's hometown and now the difference is when the paddy harvest season arrives in my parents village (kampung teungoh, North Aceh) check location where my childhood country yard with members of my family gardener honed his career.

The trado engine vehicle can only act on land with a dry ricefield structure, flat land and large land (not muddy). all technological machines that are created certainly have advantages and disadvantages from the point of view of their usefulness which is difficult to work and there are several factors and obstacles that I do not understand how it works. With this condition happening in my village, now is an opportunity for me and the surrounding community in rural areas to increase their income by working in the ricefield area, even hire some people to work for a fixed wage per day to create jobs for the unemployed, eager to work. Especially for me as a housewife who doesn't have a job.

The manual method of human labor requires several stages and is constrained by time that cannot be done by itself. Working together is easier to buy time and very enjoyable when you have a friend to chat with as a partner in getting the job done.

Everyone is tempted by currency work because they don't want to remember the more bad things are happening, increasing the economic crisis and making things difficult in the countryside (another epidemic). Precisely by working even though being a farm worker looks so simple in this low income job it doesn't make us tired and sad with working under the sun. The reflection of the sun we feel is no reason for us to stop working under this sky, with makeshift equipment as body protection. until next time.

There are some things women also work on, but we only have a limited time working as Paddy's shaver with a sharp knife and hooking paddy's bones into one big knot so it doesn't fall apart, the ends of the cut ties being picked up after they're cut in the with hands and dry 3-4hours, this is just the beginning of the game in the gardening work continues. At least here we can earn IDR 100,000 daily salary per person in cash.

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This is the farm where my family members grow crops and harvest paddy. Looks not so wide, the diameter of the small circle gives great hope to the opportunity for ideas to form employment opportunities for those who want to work. In fact, if it is owned by oneself, it can reduce wages and the activity capacity of people in work.

After we shaved all the land we finished, it's time to let Paddy's clump be put to dry and just dry while spending time resting, for a bit. You need to know that the available land area is calculated from wages, for example the land area is a thousand meters, the wages for collecting the remaining pieces are IDR 100,000. It's not a daily salary, it's not difficult for those hard workers to get more square meters in a day.

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The very auspicious things when the sun continues to shine so bright make the paddy cutting knots wilt so quickly, so it's not over, to earn extra wages everyone can do easily. At this stage all work is controlled by making large piles to make it easier to take all the pieces of paddy when threshing paddy works with a tornado threshing motor.

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This box drive machine as a paddy thresher is very easy to carry anywhere and anytime when needed, the box load is slightly light to lift which has a separate driving motor, but this is only a strong man who will complete the mission of working to perfect harvest activities as a the process of taking seeds and paddy seeds apart from the leaves so that they are really superior and clean from this thresher.

This thresher is a little spoiled that can be used at one point after being turned on (settled) which has a crew of four, worker guards who control their respective duties. threshing crews complete their different tasks requiring each other. Precisely working together is not easy to get tired while the heavy role still continues.

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Now many workers are needed to control as long as the paddy threshing is still running, because working with machines manually is a lot of activities that must be done to end the job, it's just the job of men working for wages. Separating the paddy seeds after cleaning it takes a long, tiring time to remove after filtering. In accordance with the work, they limit the wages of their crops by determining that wages can be exchanged for paddy. I'm confused, for example. If the ricefield land owners get 15 pcs of paddy sacks weighing 45-50 kg/sack, then they will get one sack of paddy from the owner as a promised reward. Do not be surprised if their results are more collected in a day reaching three hundred thousand per person. Even more, it is a hard worker taking overtime so that the income target can be stabilized.

While stalling for time waiting for the harvest father to arrive, I became busy trying to help him hold the sack, even though I as a woman alone in the field did not become a reason to be ashamed to help my parents full of smiles, because not all jobs in the ricefield area run with work wages, I can help with small steps as an additional encouragement to parents as a relief in other matters.

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All activities are not hampered as expected, workers complete their respective tasks and then go to other ricefields, don't be confused with them because they are chasing targets without thinking about resting, I see they are very strong at work because of their habits in life rural.

Time must be fought, even this is the last thing I can say after the paddy is put in a sack and collected to be brought home or marketed to the nearest market to be exchanged for money, all income as a guarantee of life in stabilizing the increasing economy in trouble.

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The market price is unpredictable, but at the moment the high graph of paddy marketing in the countryside is very profitable. supply prices cannot be stabilized but now the market price is very normal above the nominal value of IDR 4600-4850/Kg equivalent to the price from before, this could go up or down again which is very difficult for me to determine the price in general.

Considering that things in the market did not make us as agricultural workers resign from work in the ricefield, we believe and continue to work with sincerity we can resist the occurrence of poverty in the countryside. Even with ricefield activities, we have the opportunity to grow crops and harvest twice a year. The government supports us to get a bigger profit from the harvest every year so that it will increase.

That's all from me. If there is an error in writing this I apologize profusely. With this, I hope that I can provide an opportunity for you to make nature a good source of life by conditioning nature as a daily income source, even providing opportunities for the surrounding community with our work. Some of the lives we saved even though the income was low.

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