Today, I will start a three day series on some things that I have been learning about in the rice world...
I took this picture of a nearby rice paddy at the end of October. Mt. Merbabu can be seen in the background shrouded in clouds. The rice was planted about a month earlier at the beginning of October.
The above picture, taken earlier this week, shows the rice now ready for harvest. As I talked with a guy at the sawah (rice paddy) he said that they get 3 harvests during the course of a year. From start to finish each planting takes 3 months to be ready to harvest.
Here is a close up of the rice. It has chaff around it that must be beaten off in order to get to the grain of rice.
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