To be Fair

Secret of Antara Gapi

I have been visiting the Welfare Home at Antara Gapi for almost a year now but I did not realize the secret of this little town. There is a huge vegetable farm tucked right behind the housing area where the welfare home located. The top picture is huge farm of leafy vegetables waiting to be harvested. The stretch of land in front of the picture is waiting for new seeds. The second picture shows a mixture of crops from sweet patoto, choy sum and short plants which look like ladies' fingers. It seems that the farmers are practicing hybrid farming where a variety of crops are grown on the same plot of land. A farmer friend once explained to me that this help to nourish the soil and prevent one crop from depleting one particular minerals from the soil.

The farm hands seems to be labourers from Bangladesh. They stared at me curiously. I on the other hand, am more impressed by his seeds sowing catwalk posture :)

posted by Vegie @ 8:46 PM