Project No. 9: Training of local people

Course No. 2: Improvement of agriculture

6. Swamprice

In many swamps is planted swamprice

The soil is cultivated by hoe

Irrigation system with small dams and canals

Rice seedlings are transfered to the swamp

Planting of the rice seedlings

On slopy areas terraces are necessary

Water- manage- ment

Rice seedlings are planted in a certain distance

Cisadane is a resistant variety from Indonesia

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Harvest is on the begining of the dry season

Rice is a cashcrop

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Harvest of rice with machete

Rice is dried on the field

Threshing by hand

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