Rice Farming - How do Farmers grow rice? {Old Method / Technology}

Greetings to all fellow steemians, I hope you all are in good health. My topic for today is "How do farmers grow Rice".

First Things First:

Rice are winter crops, here in Pakistan, rice are sown in between October-December and are harvested in March-April. First thing to do before sowing is to prepare land for rice. People soft the surface of land by pouring water in the field and then soften it with Tractors as shown in second picture below. In old times people used Oxes to soft the fields.

Oxes are being used to soft the land.

Modern quick and easy way to soft the land for rice.

Sow the seeds

Sowing the seeds is the next step to grow Rice. Seven to eight seeds are sowed at same place then same thing is done at a little distance. People like to do this whole work clean and in straight lines so that its easy for them to harvest it later.

Rice crops require alot of Water. So during the time of sowing the water should be knee high.

Give it Time and Water

The process of sowing is done. Now it all comes to care. Rice are cultivated in around three months. So the better you care the better quality of rice you get. It also depends on the seed but Care is most important. Rice needs to be in water for first two months. After that, farmers can afford to reduce water.

Harvest it

When the edges of the rice crop turns gold. Its the indication that rice are now prepared. Farmers double check by harvesting some plants from different areas of the field. When they are sure its completed. They harvest it. Now in old ways the crops were harvested with bare hands. Harvesting took days. But now machines are available that can help you harvest weeks work in days.

A thresher harvesting rice.

After the rice are harvested people extract the rice and sell it to markets. In my village people make ropes of the remaining plant.

Thanks for reading..