Date:9-8-2011
FOOD
The staple food of the people are rice,maize,; oyik(a green vegetable), gvvyii /laipatta ,etc. There are many other fruit trees which they consume. Pears, jackfruits,(Tako Bvla), Peach(Tvvrkam), Guava,Banana, etc are consumed, among them, orange is a very delighted of all the fruits, There is one fruit which belongs to the wild category locally named as "Biku yayu". It has a soured taste, however, these are some of the food produced and consumed by the villagers.
HARVEST OF THE RICE
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| VILLAGERS DURING HARVEST OF RICE (copyright by pebi tato) |
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| VILLAGERS DURING THE HARVEST:(-pebi tato)Delhi university geography project |
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| Rice paddy field-yaki tato-keak village |
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| PHOTO COURTESY:Pebi Tato |
The region is very suitable for the rice cultivation, during the month of April-may they start planting the rice nursery into the wet field. The water is very well needed so that the fields are well connected with drainage and channels, for the few months, the water is kept within the rice fields and then when the paddy grows the water is let to flow off by making an outlet.
villagers in the field are very careful while harvesting.The picture has been taken in the month of august 20,in fact during this month not all the areas of rice are fully grown but which are grown are harvested accordingly.
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Photo:@yakitato village
OTHER ACTIVITIES
There are many other activities which the village does, and the inhabitants love what they do to sustain in the valley. Agriculture being the main occupation for the livelihood,the people also go out into the forest, collect woods,local vegetables,collect ropes from the specific trees and many other activities. There is none in the village who doesn't love to go to the forest and hunt and gather. It has been a part and partial of the dwellers since many ages.
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| The villagers coming from the forest with the bulk of woods |
The men and women have a definite type of activities, like in the picture a villager is preparing a rope out of a bamboo, he may use the rope for the purpose of tying within the fence, or he may sometimes make a carpet. There are many other activities which the men performs. On the other hand, the women apart from going to the fields they also performs activities like weaving, feeding the domestic animals like pigs and hens , collect firewoods etc.
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| Villager :preparing rope from Bamboo. |
Cultivation and Harvesting(information related)
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Methods of growing differ greatly in different localities, but in most Asian countries the traditional hand methods of cultivating and harvesting rice are still practiced. The fields are prepared by plowing (typically with simple plows drawn by water buffalo), fertilizing (usually with dung or sewage), and smoothing (by dragging a log over them). The seedlings are started in seedling beds and, after 30 to 50 days, are transplanted by hand to the fields, which have been flooded by rain or river water. During the growing season, irrigation is maintained by dike-controlled canals or by hand watering. The fields are allowed to drain before cutting.
Rice when it is still covered by the brown hull is known as paddy; rice fields are also called paddy fields or rice paddies. Before marketing, the rice is threshed to loosen the hulls—mainly by flailing, treading, or working in a mortar—and winnowed free of chaff by tossing it in the air above a sheet or mat.
