Hello Hive

A happy New month to all the beautiful souls here. I am delighted that we made it to the penultimate month of the year and regardless of all we have been through we are still here standing strong and winning all.

As the days pass by so does our rice harvest draws closer. Although we do not have much of the grains to harvest but even if it is a hundred Kg in all, it will amount to something that we can eat for a month or two before proceeding to buy from the market.

This is often the problem, whenever our crops don't produce well we are forced to purchase more from the market and that is inevitable this year as the pattern of rain intercepted our crops growth.

We went to the farm very early yesterday and upon inspecting our rice we realized that they are now ready for harvest. The seeds within are matured and once they start turning brown like this they are ripe for harvest.

Here is an important fact to note and do regarding rice harvest in order to make it easier for us.
Most of the times people do know the best time to harvest their grains hence it create a lot of work for them at harvest

This is what I mean by that, once your seed are ripe and ready, harvest can start immediately. You do not have to wait for the green rice leaves to get dried alongside before you commence harvest.

Whenever harvest is not done within this timing and the leaves gets dried alongside the grains, it becomes a pile of dirt among the rice grains at harvest. This creates a lot of work for farmers such that you have to spend a whole lot of time beating the rice against the wind to removed the dried leaves.

Harvesting and sorting of rice from the dirt is usually easy when the the rice are partly dried and the leaves are fresh.

In order to equally avoid this loads of dirt some of my farmer friends have already start harvesting, these ones prefer to do an extra work of sun-drying drying the grains on sacs after harvest. To me that is equally another extra work.