Harvesting

This family began harvesting on Sunday. Eight people altogether with the extended family roped in to assist. Sons and daughters, nieces and nephews came back from the city for the occasion. Four people per field completed 720 square metres each, threshed and spread the harvest out to dry in 6 hours. Then they all sat down to a feast and spent the afternoon sleeping. They said they would start on the next fields in a couple of days.

All day Monday and again today it has rained. There has been thunder too. No drying - it takes about 3 days to dry the grain in the sunshine - and I fear that the rest of the crop might be ruined as well. In any case they said the yield was relatively low due to storms in the past month. This can be a negative or a positive. If the rest of the region has experienced similar problems the price will be high and they'll recoup some of the losses in volume.