Farmer in Indonesia
Farming is the occupation for most Indonesian. Farmers are mostly planting rice or padi in Bahasa Indonesia. Despite there are farmers who plant vegetables, tobacco, chili, corns, etc, rice is the most common to be planted. It is the main food for Indonesian. Watching farmers doing their work in the field is interesting, it is a worthy tourism attraction. It will be more fun when tourists are involved in their work.
Mostly, farmers in Indonesia are traditional farmers. They do not use machinery to plant and harvest, the only modern machine used is tractor to plow the field, but sometimes they hoe the field manually. Only few farmers own tractor because the price is expensive. The tractors are used to plow their own field and to be rented to the other farmers.
It is hard to live as a farmer. Why? Because many farmers do not have their own field, they are just tenant farmers that have to share equally the harvest with the field owners. Any cost (to buy fertilizers and insecticide, plowing) borne by the tenant farmers. In addition, they should work at the field everyday.
The time of harvesting and after are the most interesting to be observed. When harvesting, we may see farmers are working together to harvest the crop. A few days after harvest time, they plow the field using tractors. This is the time for many herons to ‘visit’ the farmers. Herons are looking for food, worm, that are coming out of the soil. Everyone may enjoy this tourism attraction in Indonesia for free. Taking pictures of the birds and the farmer may refresh everyone and as a gateway from daily routines.
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