RICE HARVEST - A REAPER IN ACTION A GLIMPSE OF LIFE IN THE PROVINCE VIDEO

The reaper is coming! No it’s not the grim reaper, but it is
called a reaper in the Philippines. This is a harvester they now use for
harvesting the majority of the rice in our valley.

Over just the last few years, we have been seeing more and
more of these reapers during the harvest season. Living in a farming community,
the people relied on the different seasons of the year to provide them with an
income. During planting time, they would all be out helping to plant the rice.
When harvest season came, these same people would be out with their bolos
cutting and harvesting the rice. They would also bring in thrashers to thrash
the rice with.

Now this has all become automated with the use of the
reapers. No longer are there scores of farmers in the fields cutting the rice
by hand. The reapers have taken over this job from them. Only the ones that
cannot afford a reaper or only have small plots use the traditional way of
cutting rice. If the rice is blown over by a storm, the farmers can be called
in then to try to salvage more of the rice harvest. Still the reaper is able to
do this work too, but with the rice on the ground already, the quality of the
rice is not as good when harvested with the reaper. The reaper is coming! No
it’s not the grim reaper, but it is called a reaper in the Philippines. Over
just the last few years, we have been seeing more and more of these reapers
during the harvest season.

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