Hello Hive

Far as the eyes can see is this very large field of rice in which everything is growing well and has neither experience any challenges ever since we began rice farming this year. The growth of the rice has been constant, soil nutrients and everything is just complete and the dark-green color of the rice is an attestation to the fact that this rice is producing well.

Contrary to what we are experiencing in our own rice farms in terms of withering of our seedlings including the transplanted rice I can see the huge difference between our farming style and how one or two adjustments could have helped us out.

This is how scanty our own fields looks like, after all the rice have withered away because of the draught and we have hence been looking for seeds to replant.

During the period of the drought this particular farmer who has been my dad friend for long has been using irrigation to support his rice farm. No wonder he didn't experience any loss or set back.

Having a rice field growing in this manner is a delight to any farmer. He has been engaged in growing vegetables along the river bank and has bought a pumping generator and pipeline worked all across the farms. These machines help him to farm all year round both in a wet or dry season.

Before I had a garden in my home this is where I often purchase my vegetables, you can see the huge line up of vegetables. He is lucky to have gotten this field close to a river bank and with the help of the pipe water is channeled round his field

During the period of the drought, he has channelled the water into the rice field, that has kept his rice alive without withering.
It's a beautiful thing to not have experience any loss here but this didn't come without an extra expenses. The cost of purchasing diesel at $1 per liter is there and imagine if he needed at least 10liters is diesel twice in a week to keep this farm alive.

This is one of the reasons that made me understand why farming can be capital intensive. He has kept his rice alive and growing well at an extra cost.

The only way we can reduce the intensive capital cost of farming is if we have all the necessary machines, tractors, planters, pumping machines and even fuel at a cheap cost. I'm sure we all understand that this extra cost goes along way to make the foods we sell in the market more expensive.