this series of films is about Filipino culture.
They get some things correct and some things wrong.
This vido is about growing rice in a sustainable fashion instead of using chemicals, consolidating farms and displacing small farmers, etc.
When I first moved here, the planting was by hand (it still is) using a water buffalo, and the harvesting was done by hand, (our staff would take off to help their relatives harvest). We had a portable thresher however, to separate the grain from the chaff. And we still tend to dry the rice on a flat surface
But the government encourages sustainable non chemical farming, and the Philippine rice institute provides grain and seedlings that are hybrid for better crop yields.
That said, a lot of this is still true:
the bad news A lot of the fields are now being sold or rented out to solar panels to supply electricity to Manila.
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