Growing rice is not as easy as we imagine, disasters or obstacles to overcoming pests have become a risk as rice farmers. As felt by the rice farmers in one of the remote residents' paddy fields in the area I live in, ranging from pest threats to rats, birds, golden snails, and stinking walang to wild boar. That is the farmers' dilemma that causes rice production to decrease every time the harvest is harvested.
Well. This time we try to tell about the farmers 'struggle to drive out the Pipit Birds (Taeniopygia guttata) in one of the small farmers' fields, the cultivated land is not too big but their business and beliefs need not be doubted. always get obstacles due to various pests. This bird comes when the rice begins to bloom and is filled for tasting.
Their behavior makes the farmers have to take extra care, from morning to late night so that the birds do not eat their crops, the work must be carried out for 1 month until the rice is hard and yellow so that the threat of these pests does not eat all the rice planted. One way is to install a net throughout the rice field area with the aim that the bird is easy to guard.
Sometimes the behavior of sparrows irritates farmers because they hide in rice leaves to suck rice grains so farmers cannot see them, even the birds do not eat rice but also cut rice trees that are in bloom with sharp mouths. When the rice season has begun to bloom, farmers invite the whole family to go down to the fields in rotation so that the rice crop does not fail to harvest. As done by the children of these farmers, in addition to repelling pests can also play while catching sparrows caught in nets put by farmers.
Various methods have been carried out by farmers, installing nets, making banners and installing puppets like humans who stand in the fields so that pests in the fields are afraid when they see the puppets, this method is a traditional initiative of farmers to repel pests that exist I paddy fields, but not deliberately to kill them.
In addition to requiring labor, farmers also have to spend more capital to buy the equipment, so that the yields are somewhat less good than those who do not take care of rice from the threat of these pests. they say they are always grateful for their harvest despite the many obstacles and capital that must be spent.
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