Could that brownish thing on the right side of the road be ” palay” being dried up? That scenery is oh so common going up North, especially in Central Luzon, Nueva Ecija in particular. When it happens, motorists can’t do anything but swear.
Among the provinces of the North, Nueva Ecija has prided itself on being the top rice producer for so many years, but now a lot of its farms had been converted into subdivisions. Sad.
My memory boasts of a childhood spent visiting relatives there, usually during Easter, Christmas and the Fiesta.
That has been the practice since I was a kid -drying palay along major roads. What is sad is that more than 30 years after, it seems the govt has not addressed the lack of agricultural facilities for farmers, so they still use the highways for drying their crop. Crap, really.
That scene is “normal” also here in Rizal province,specifically in the towns of Morong,Baras,Tanay,and Pillila,where rice is a chief crop. I didn’t mind it when I was a little boy because I was usually just a passenger in our car. But when I started driving as a grown up, I’d curse the irresponsible citizens who dry their palays in the national highway. And if you accidentally drive over the palay, the townsfolk will either curse you, chase your car or stone it, or all of these. Now, my family is also into palay,but we take our harvest to a drier facility for drying. We happen to know that we do not own the highway. As for the other farmers…. makes me wonder what kind of a country are we in?
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April 6th, 2009 at 03:00
Could that brownish thing on the right side of the road be ” palay” being dried up? That scenery is oh so common going up North, especially in Central Luzon, Nueva Ecija in particular. When it happens, motorists can’t do anything but swear.
Among the provinces of the North, Nueva Ecija has prided itself on being the top rice producer for so many years, but now a lot of its farms had been converted into subdivisions. Sad.
My memory boasts of a childhood spent visiting relatives there, usually during Easter, Christmas and the Fiesta.
April 6th, 2009 at 13:31
THAT is crazy. How in the world…
April 6th, 2009 at 20:03
That has been the practice since I was a kid -drying palay along major roads. What is sad is that more than 30 years after, it seems the govt has not addressed the lack of agricultural facilities for farmers, so they still use the highways for drying their crop. Crap, really.
April 7th, 2009 at 08:01
haaay.. it’s normal in Nueva Ecija
April 8th, 2009 at 00:18
That scene is “normal” also here in Rizal province,specifically in the towns of Morong,Baras,Tanay,and Pillila,where rice is a chief crop. I didn’t mind it when I was a little boy because I was usually just a passenger in our car. But when I started driving as a grown up, I’d curse the irresponsible citizens who dry their palays in the national highway. And if you accidentally drive over the palay, the townsfolk will either curse you, chase your car or stone it, or all of these. Now, my family is also into palay,but we take our harvest to a drier facility for drying. We happen to know that we do not own the highway. As for the other farmers…. makes me wonder what kind of a country are we in?