Agriculture is quite rewarding. It is true that there is no shortage of risk attached to running a farm like that, but by the end of the day, I'm glad they got their return on investment. Hehe.
You made a good observation here... Farmers are really not having it easy. So many of them have to take care of the farm for months and run several expenses plus the risk of not getting good harvest. But when they finally get the harvests, they usually get underpriced by buyers.
Well, I'm glad everything is unfolding nicely in this rice farm. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Thank you for the nice compliments. Honestly, I almost didn't catch this event since there were a lot of people outside and I am not used to being exposed. It almost got the better of me but I tried not to mind them and just go with photographing the harvest.
Another reason I took the initiative to put this into a blog was because of the unfairness that I have felt knowing how much the harvest was priced. They said that the highest selling price was above twenty. And though it seems just a bit higher than 18PHP, to farmers, it has a lot of difference in price.
Yeah. I understand that so much. This is basically why so many people are being demotivates from practicing farming. You work so much for seasons but when it comes to making sells, it get valued at a ridiculously low price.
I hope things gets better over there. In my part of the world, we pay a fortune for rice so I know how expensive it can be.
Thanks for sharing this in a blog. It helps to keep us more informed.
I know how traditional farming keeps the farming spirit alive, but we can never deny what technology can do to our lives at present. Yesterday was nostalgic but today is revolutionary.
Although a harvester does the job in our place, there are certain parts in my country where farmers still harvedt right by hand. And by that, it would still be far from saying that technology have already replaced farmers' farming traditions.