Where Are The Rice Planters
By Tokz
@ilocosboy (45157)
Philippines
July 15, 2016 9:05pm CST
Gone are the days when people are happy together planting in the farm fields. Farmer is flowing the muddy and some are planting simultaneously in the field. The tradition has it that there were even singing farmer with the guitar, there are singing and then they eat together under the shed of the lone big tree in the middle of the farm.
Today, the technology killed the traditions. The workers now are tractors, motorized rice planters, and other farm equipment that brought easy work for the farmer.
But those days, so simple and happy.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32507)
• Calgary, Alberta
16 Jul 16
Tapa and Mozzarella cheese gives them a purpose.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
Would you want to go back to the good old days?
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
no, but I would really want to experience it again. You know, the simple living, the way we were. The serene environment, pristine nature.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
no, but I would really want to experience it again. You know, the simple living, the way we were. The serene environment, pristine nature.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
@ilocosboy You still can. There are still some remote areas in our county with no electricity.
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@Marcyaz (35316)
• United States
17 Jul 16
@ilocosboy
haha how true and wondering what the next century will bring.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
'planting rice is never fun'- so goes the song, but in reality,planting rice SHOULD be fun at all
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
its been a long time that I did not plant rice in the field, I miss those days.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
@ilocosboy it is a noble job, i believe, for it there are no farmers, there will be no food on the table
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
@ridingbet its so happen that farmers now are becoming endangered species.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
we still have numbers of carabao in our place but its not intended for farming now but as fattening for livelihood.
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@itsmejing (606)
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16 Jul 16
@ilocosboy here in south cotabato many farmers are still using carabaos.. Those cute carabaos hehehe
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@sunilparthan (6283)
• India
16 Jul 16
yes, at those day it was really nice to see. but as you said now farming itself came down. no one is ready for this. they all have other works to do.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
farming now is easier but the tradition and enjoyment of it is gone.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32507)
• Calgary, Alberta
16 Jul 16
I am more worried about this question "Where are the rice fields"
You know rice fields are being turned into malls and residential areas. This could lead to food shortages.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32507)
• Calgary, Alberta
16 Jul 16
@ilocosboy Look what happened in Venezuela. We needed the fields remain as fields.
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@hereandthere (45651)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
it's okay if it's motorized now, as long as our country still have actual fields to plant rice in.
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@Letranknight2015 (51532)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
I learned last year only that we actually had a rice plantation, but unfortuantely we don't go there and see the farm. there are more people now a days, and if i could only win the lottery i could have my grandma's land filled with vegetables and fruits.
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@shivamani10 (11038)
• Hyderabad, India
16 Jul 16
I was thinking that it is only Indians who are appreciating the pre-technology days. But, everywhere in the world in all most all countries, people are appreciating the olden days. They are hating the changes the industrial revolution has brought in . If everybody is hating this technological development why should we accept and welcome it?
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
Actually its not hating the modern marvels of farming, its just missing of the tradition of good old days of farming.
@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
I miss those days. I grew up in the province and within our compound, there are rice fields.
Even the lot in front of our house used to be rice fields, but now, they are not planted anymore.
I had even tried planting rice when I was small. Hihi
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@brokenbee (11090)
• Philippines
17 Jul 16
@ilocosboy we just planted grafted mango trees in those rice fields and in front of our house, yup, there are houses and a chapel now.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
its building have risen in the fields.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
16 Jul 16
even in our place, some farmers are still traditional farming.
