I am extremely sure that not everyone who eats rice understands entirely how to bear it. In fact, rice is the staple food for most Indonesians. This is badly ironic. This reality brings to some consequences. Some ones always have a large or a small amount of rice left after eating. The waste rice is thrown away without latter management to be a more useful matter. Even before consumption, they don’t know how to boil rice precisely in order to keep its nutrition. What bad manners are!
If only most people knew how hard it is to produce rice, they would appreciate it more. Farmers shed their sweat and tear to show their hard works. They have to get dirty by soil and manure and get wet by river water. They must speculate their money and assets to be planted in rice business. Even they often broke on their farm because of some unpredictable conditions such as pests and diseases occurrence, natural disasters, or the fallen-price. Thereby, theirs must be respected properly by a better people’s manner over rice.
The preceding statement is simply an introduction to the next further explanation about how to produce rice. It has several objectives for the sake of a better future for every society’s group. Despite giving more reverence to farmers, I strongly recommend that the appreciation to rice have to be emerged by building a rice respectful culture. It also has economical value to guarantee societal life prosperity whereas rice is as a property of life.
Let’s start to find out how to produce rice comprehensively! We will learn it in a safely and sustainably environmental way. First, farmers work on land preparation. It will use manual techniques by animal power or hoe. The second step is pulling of seedlings. The seed previously has been planted in seedbed for at least a week. It would have been transplanted if it was strong and old enough. Thirdly, the transplanting is executed. A month later, they carry out weeding as the fourth step. The fifth one is application of farm yard manure. If it is found some pests or diseases attacks above a permitted threshold, the natural pesticides will be splashed to the plant. The manure and the pesticides are made by natural matters taken from the environment. This is the step number six. Approximately three months, it depends on the variety of rice, the seventh step is harvesting. They use a sickle or a hook to cut the paddy at its bottom. Those are seven steps of rice production in farm.
The next five steps, named off farm, which we will be discussed, are the processes on how the rice can come up to our dining table. As step eight, the harvested paddy is threshing. This process is about beating the unshelled-rice out of the paddy-plant by a specific manual device from wood or bamboo. The ninth step, the paddy is selected and classified into several grades for seed, food, and animal feed. Then the tenth step is manual dehulling of paddy for food using a pestle and a mortar. It produces rice. Parboiling is the eleventh step. After that, we come to final step that is food preparation. So, enjoy your dish!
Dian Pratiwi Pribadi
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