Tuesday Happenings: Cropcut? Whats that?

1. First, The Field Day
When we arrived at PHILRICE we were told that we will go to Brgy. Salvacion, Murcia City, Negros Occidental and attend the PalayCheck Project. This is a project that would teach people what managements they should do in planting rice. An example is Pest Management. The project held a field day at the said place. Their were about 20 farmers that attended and about 15 professionals that had backgrounds in agriculture. It was funt their because all the speakers had jokes.
2. The Interview
After the meeting we were told to interview 1 farmer, of course attended the field day, for each of the 4 of us. They were kind and polite farmers though.
3. Cropcutting!!
This field work was done in one of the model farms in Brgy. Salvacion. Because this was a surprise work, we didn't bring our gears thinking that we will direct home after the interview. But we were wrong, we were so wrong. We left our boots in the office so we had nothing to wear. We were just bare foot in that activity. What we will do is harvest 3 2mx2.5m plots in the model farm, and count the the total number of hills and the total number of missing hills. It was hard but it was fun. Having an experience like that would be very unforgettable. Walking in mud that would drown was so challenging.
4. The Processing
After that tiring field work we were made to process the data at PHILRICE. The only thing to do is to divide the total number of missing yields over the total number of yields for each plot. It was the most refreshing work we had.
5. Last, Bahay-Kubo??
The place I mean bahay-kubo is the Palayamanan house which was one of the projects of "Mr. Sam". The project was to teach farmers to how to plant other plants other than rice. This project would also help some farmers to know how they would get a good harvest. The house was also inspired by the song "Bahay-Kubo" because it almost had all the plants from the song.

Posted by: Manuel