1st: First the rice is planted in spring
2nd: You will need to plough the paddy fields
3rd: Pump the water on to the land!
4th: Zwe's mother plants rows and rows of seedlings into the muddy water!
5th: When it's Summer everyone is up early because it was time to harvest the rice!
6th: the bright green stalks have turn yellow!
7th: The seed heads are ripe!
8th: The paddy fields have been drained and the ground was hard and dry!
9th: When the long stalks of rice have been cut, they take them to the farmer at the threshing machine!
10th:THE Job of the machine is the machine has to separate the rice from the grain!
11th:The machine blows the stalks out at one end splits the rice grains into large sacks!
12th: The grains Must be dried!
13TH: the farmers haul the heavy sacks
14th: they tip out the rice and rake the grains along the side of the road!
15th: Then they start to walk over the rice and they also start to cattle trample on it , sometimes cars and bikes ride over it!
16th:Zwe and his family eat it three times a day Sometimes they eat rice with Meat, fish, Or eggs with their rice!
also soup, fruit and coconut! Zwe's mother is cooking steamed rice with her new rice cooker!
17th: Tonight is a special treat, Zwe is allowed to buy a leafy bundle of his faviroute sticky-rice and bean-paste sweets from the road sides stall! Zwez loves the rice!
Hi Josephine,
ReplyDeleteNice story.
Like your rice in the bowl.
Good effort.
Keep up the great blog post's.
Love from Aldora