Diary Game (29-01-2025) || "We started planting rice today, but engine problems caused some disruption."
Assalamu Alaikum friends,
We will start planting rice seedlings from today. We have a lot of work pressure today. The main task today will be to make the land muddy and then level it with a ladder. We will start work from this morning, ignoring the cold.
This morning I had to go to the fuel pump to get diesel in the thick fog. I got wet in the fog while going to the pump with my bike. When I reached the pump, I saw that a nearby retail shopkeeper had sent an empty oil drum to bring diesel. I had to wait for a while until the drum was filled. Today, I also bought diesel for 1400 bids at 104.67 taka. I returned home with 13+ liters of diesel.
My brother and I went to the field and filled the engine with oil as it was a little low and started the power tiller. We will start the final cultivation of the land from today and get the rice seedlings planted by the workers. The brother is starting the cultivation of the land, I am leveling the high mud of each land and pulling the ladder.
Our workers have come and we need to show them the seedbed. We have three varieties of rice seeds in our seedbed so we need to show them one variety of seedbed for today. I went to the seedbed with the workers and showed them that they have started raising rice seedlings. There were a lot of weeds in our rice seedbed. We used herbicide 2 weeks ago and the roots of the weeds were destroyed and the leaves of the weeds on top were dying. I said goodbye to the workers.
I went to the field and saw that the oil seal of the main engine of our power tiller was broken and engine oil was coming out from that side. It is not pleasant for us to have an engine failure under the pressure of so much work. I called the mechanic and asked him to come and repair our engine. I didn't have to wait long, the mechanic arrived within 30 minutes. We started opening the engine and my brother went to the market to get the parts. After we opened the engine, I called him on my mobile and told him what supplies we needed.
When my brother came with the materials, we started working on the engine again. Our power tiller needs two parts, we put a bush and a well seal on it and started the engine again. My brother started farming with the car. I sent the mechanic his salary in Diu.
Our workers are picking up the seedlings from the rice seedbed and are ready to plant. I am watching them planting the seedlings and I asked them to plant them properly and 2-3 seedlings in each bunch. The workers are doing their work and I came home for lunch.
After noon, we went to another field again and moved the soil from the high places to the lower places so that there would be no problem in watering later. We are pulling a rope tied to a burlap sack to remove the soil. I am using a spade to remove the soil. We continued this work till the afternoon.
I returned home and went to where our workers were planting rice seedlings. They have finished planting seedlings in all the fields here and the workers are returning home in the late afternoon after finishing their work like today. Today, 26 workers (male and female) planted our rice seedlings. I finished the day's work by taking a bath in the evening.
Good luck to you.
I wish you well
I also love agriculture, but our home in Libya is not good for growing rice, but we have many olive and palm farms. We also have a whole valley called Wadi Al-Zaytoun in my city, Bani Walid. I wish you abundant production.