Planting rice is hard and taking care of it takes alot of time and effort. And you need to finance for it.
Before you planting rice you need to cultivate the soil. And that costs money you need a rotor to plow the field and if the water from the irrigation is not yet coming you will need to use waterpumps to water the field and it costs to fuel the water pumps .
And after plowing the field you would need to plant the seedlings of rice then i takes atleast 2o- 22 days before you could transplant . And in transplanting you would need to hire people to transplant . And after transplanting you would need to spray some pisticides and herbicide so to control or stop the snails from eating your rice and herbicides to control the growth of unnecesarry plants in the field.
Planting is not the end but the start of the hardships , first you would need the steady supply water for atleast you could water it once or twice a week . Then after a few week you would need fertilizers to help the plant to grow . Then pesticides again . And another fertilizers after a few weeks . Then wait till you could harvest it.
Then after harvesting you vould have sacks after sacks of palay . Then you would tend to sell some of your crops so that you could cover for the costs that you spend . And the thing is that what left behind will be just enough food before the next crop.
My point is we need to apreciate the farmers .Because they work hard in the field almost everyday so that we could eat crops . And these farmers wait for almost 3to 4 months before they could harvest . And if they dont have any other way to have an income in that few months what would they fees their families.
Agreed! Farmers deserve everyone's gratitude.