Date:- 17 August, Wednesday.
Topic:- Paddy Cultivation.
Our country is an agricultural country. Paddy is the main food grain of our country. Our country is the fourth largest rice producing country in the world. Most of the people in this country are involved with agriculture and my father is also a farmer like them.
We have good amount of land in village home. Every plot of land is cultivated with paddy. As my father is a good farmer, he does everything.
The first thing to do in rice cultivation is to make the agricultural land suitable for planting seedlings. For that, the land is plowed with a tractor. Then water is irrigated to the land and made suitable for cultivation by providing ladders as you can see in the picture.
The next step is to collect rice seedlings. In our country, rice seeds are usually planted separately in a small plot of land to produce seedlings.
After a certain time those saplings are picked up from the land and it's a little bit hard work. They are also available for purchase in market but we grow these seedlings ourselves. Then the seedlings are collected and placed in main land.
Then the planting of seedlings in land begins. Before that the land is irrigated in quantity and by re-laddering the land is leveled to facilitate planting.
Although my father is a good farmer, he cannot plant paddy. It requires few workers who can plant well. It is their professional work but only every season.
In the picture you can see some little boys planting saplings. Earlier adults were doing this work mostly but nowadays youngers are doing.
This is good for them as they can earn good money every season. Many spend this money on shopping and many on their education.
However, they complete the planting work in just one day. The land looks pretty good after planting. Within a few days, all the surrounding lands were planted with saplings.
After planting the seedlings, the main task is regular irrigation of all lands. We have our own irrigation pump.
Before irrigation pumps were used through fuel oil but now modern pea pumps and electric systems have been used in our whole country. And it is very easy, fast and affordable.
Now look at this picture and say which scene you like the most. Of course, the picture of planting rice seedlings looks good.
Because whatever you plant in any empty space, the beauty of that space increases. And this is the ideal of nature.
Most of the people of our country are involved in agriculture but this is changing. The amount of agricultural land is decreasing day by day. People are building houses on their land. As a result agriculture is getting out of balance.
On the other hand, farmers don't want their next generation to be involved in agriculture.
Because agriculture is considered low level in our country. Farmers are the ones who suffer and toil the most but don't get fair wages.
In this way, maybe one day there will be no arable land, villages will turn into cities, food will change and at some point the balance of nature will be lost. So we should take proper action while there is time.
Thank you all.
I salute to all the farmers my friend. They are all heroes because of them there's a food we can eat. I love your place. Especially the picture that having a rice seedlings.