Farming in the Third World (weekly photo challenge)
The theme for WordPress’ weekly photo challenge this week is “Simple”.
That made me think of this photo I took when I lived in a small village in Nepal. The local farmers were busy planting rice in order to take advantage of all the water that pours down during rainy season.
- Nepalese tractor. No need to worry about any carbon footprint…
Here’s my Nepalese neighbors busy on the rice paddies: their method & tools are simple, eco-friendly, brilliant & ancient.
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Good choice for this week’s theme! Great photo!
January 21, 2012 at 09:48
Takker og bukker Britten
January 21, 2012 at 09:50
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perfect choice, it is so good to remember the simple ways … and yes hard work, but how much more satisfying at the end of the day! thanks for the pingback
January 21, 2012 at 10:52
Simple ways and hard work doesn’t kill the planet, like a lot of modern agriculture do.
January 21, 2012 at 10:59
good take on this week
January 21, 2012 at 10:54
Thanks Jo. I couldn’t help but notice that we have a similar take on this weeks challenge.
January 21, 2012 at 11:00
I think many of us think about when life was simpler quite a bit…
January 21, 2012 at 11:07
I believe you’re right.
January 21, 2012 at 15:36
A simple life within a complicated world that brings such hardship. Great photo
January 21, 2012 at 11:23
Thanks jfb
January 21, 2012 at 15:35
Great entry for this week topic
January 21, 2012 at 12:02
Glad you like it Jake. Thanks for commenting.
January 21, 2012 at 15:36
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Ploughing- simple, good one,
http://wp.me/p1j16x-3p
January 21, 2012 at 14:37
Hard work, simple technique.
January 21, 2012 at 15:42
Perfect choice for this week’s theme. The photo depicts simple living, yet it also shows how hard working the farmer is.
Thanks for the link! Have a great weekend!
January 21, 2012 at 15:45
Thank you very much Gracie. Have a great week! (unfortunately the weekend is coming to an end)
January 22, 2012 at 20:26
What a beautiful photo. And what a reminder that things can be done simply.
January 21, 2012 at 17:13
Sometimes simplicity can be genious
January 22, 2012 at 20:28
Excellent choice for this weeks theme…
January 21, 2012 at 18:23
Thanks Mike & congrats with “photo of the year”!
January 22, 2012 at 20:29
My oh my Cardinal, you have lived in so many different places and have been exposed to so many different cultures. Wow! Margie
January 21, 2012 at 19:07
Thanks Margie. I lived in this small village in Nepal for 3 months: in a small stone house equipped with only the basics (one lamp, a tiny kitchen, some painting equipment, a radio & some of books). I shared the house with a bunch of rats that kept running around during nights as they were looking for food.
It was an interesting experience.
Perhaps I’ll write a post about it some day, or translate the article that I wrote a few years back…
January 22, 2012 at 20:35
Nice. because this is simple / the basics in fact as without food we die!
January 21, 2012 at 20:52
Food is a necessity, plus it can be very tasty!
January 22, 2012 at 20:36
The simple life of man and beast, lovely shot!
January 21, 2012 at 21:29
Thanks Patti. It was interesting to be able to see this part of the world we live in.
January 22, 2012 at 20:41
oh wow, the irony!
simple indeed – looks like a lot of hard, manual labour to go from planting to harvesting.
thanks for sharing this poignant post.
January 22, 2012 at 06:54
HIs job is definitely harder than mine. More important as well!
January 22, 2012 at 20:44
Very simple indeed. You are lucky to have been able to see this in person, and then to share it with so many others.
January 22, 2012 at 20:52
Thanks Kathy. Yes I am. It was truly interesting to live with the Nepalese.
January 22, 2012 at 20:59
Nice “Simple” interpretation. “Green” too. Best of both worlds.
http://wp.me/pPyQY-ww
January 23, 2012 at 03:36
Thanks Joe. Post more tech tutorials please
I love that stuff.
January 23, 2012 at 21:06
Heyyy….thats like in my village….my grandpa did that for living
January 23, 2012 at 15:37
“He worked hard for the money, so hard for the money” *singing*
January 23, 2012 at 21:07
Maybe no carbon footprint, but methane
I love your nepaleese tractors!
January 24, 2012 at 12:58
Don’t forget: this tractor is also edible!
January 25, 2012 at 19:58
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I love it! great photo and great pic for the theme
January 26, 2012 at 00:35
Thanks Brenda, have a wonderful day!
January 26, 2012 at 10:26
How much knowledge and hard work does one need to do something so simple! Thanks for illustrating it. Makes my job look easy! Thanks for visiting my site and for the ping back.
January 27, 2012 at 04:39
I guess the best part of his job is waiting for the harvest
January 28, 2012 at 18:55
Perhaps in the meantime there are small machines in use too (like here) which are doing the work faster and louder. And it’s not always so romantic like it looks (they are burning the rest after the harvest) because they have absolutly no ecological intentions.
January 28, 2012 at 17:22
Still I guess it’s more eco-friendly than a lot of the big-scale industrial farming with chemicals etc. The work they are doing on this picture is definitely not romantic – just hard labour.
January 28, 2012 at 18:55
Times without chemicals are long gone too. No chance to get a good harvest without. There’s a big gap between how those pictures are seen by urban westerners and 3rd world reality.
January 29, 2012 at 01:20
Yes, you’re probably right: Monsanto is busy poisoning the world & getting rich doing it.
I read somewhere that if everyone ate organic food, we wouldn’t have enough food to feed the planet, because there’s just too many mouths to feed.
At the market it was possible to buy DDT insecticide on a spray-can: it’s totally banned in the West, so the western companies continues to sell their products in third-world countries instead, where the laws are still non-existent and/or the legislation is more “flexible”.
January 29, 2012 at 08:05
That’s how it is. We tried here to use organic fertilizer but it’s too compiicated. The farmers don’t understand why they should change their behaviour.
January 29, 2012 at 18:28