Hi all, welcome new week, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.
I would like to share you some photos I took of farmers in my hometown. In the past, people would use traditional ways for farming. They used oxen to help in the farming: ploughing and then all the way to harvesting. These days machine tools replaced it so you wouldn’t see these much anymore. These photos are from planting rice-crops to harvesting it. I hope you enjoy and can relate to your life!
Below: my sister was walking in our paddy field in the planting season
Above: we had to get the seeds by doing this. In Khmer, we call បោកកណ្តាប់ which means hitting the bundle to get the seeds, the straw will then be using as the food for the oxen.
Thanks for sharing this nice post @Sophia_Cambodia . Farmers are backbone of the economy of the countries like Bangladesh and Cambodia. Thanks for choosing this nice theme.
Thank you so much for this wonderful and very informative post. I really enjoyed reading it. The photos are amazing and I appreciate the details you have provided. I have seen the similar traditional ways when I visited few of the rural areas. It’s so great to see your family in this post.
Appreciated your positive comments @SalmaanN yes it is very similar, since we depends mostly on the farming. This is way more traditional one. These days, you wouldn’t see much of these anymore. They use machine to replace oxen.
I couldn’t agree more, @Sophia_Cambodia That’s totally true. Doing it as a full time only, we will know the difficulty especially in the farming as it requires lot of physical effort. When we love our work, it will make us not to give up easily.
That’s very inspiring, @Sophia_Cambodia Our parents’ hardwork is the reason for the success in our life. I am doing well and hoping to travel to some great places soon.
That’s true @SalmaanN and great to hear that you planned to go somewhere. I wish you all the best.
Here, next week there is the long public holiday which is called Pjum Ben festival or Ghost festivals. Sadly, so high number of Covid positive so they have to close the temple and not allowing people go to the ceremony.
Thanks for this post @Sophia_Cambodia as it cam be a part of my story.
Mechanization in farming started in my area in the mid '70, so I personally experienced the transition. I grow up in a farm, and harvesting was a collective works, with all the farmers helping each other. I was a kid, and I stille remember the happiness of working together, moving from a farm to another, for all the time of the harvest. I don’t know if it was a better life, as it was hard, mostly with a very low income. But for sure it was an happier life
Well, you do remind me of such similar activities here @ErmesT about 20 years ago (10 years before some of these photos). Let’s say when I was a kid 7-10 years old, farmers did help each other which we called ប្រវ៉ាស់ដៃ Provas dai. Families would take turn, not only harvesting, even when planting, to work on one farm, then eat together (food from each family and put together), when finish they would go to the next farm just like you said.
Yes, totally agree. It was happy time, working together, signing, playing… people did not really care much about money. They would just help each other. Now, no younger generation much in the farms so they replace all humans/cattle activities with machine.
Sure, let’s pray for that together @SalmaanN so far, it has been hard here for everyone and I knew some friends who lost their family members because of that. Wishing you and your family the best too, stay well and safe.
The second wave was terrifying in my place, @Sophia_Cambodia I also lost few of my close relatives due to this. It’s painful but with prayers we will overcome the pandemic.
