Rice Farm

For Cambodian rice farms, September is usually throw-away month when it comes to field work. Too much rain and flooding make work almost impossible. But, this year, even with near record flood levels, we worked continuously on everything from tillage, to planting; and harvesting to milling. Our innovations have paid off, and with our new equipment, we will soon have control of water for year-round production. We will become a sustainable ministry, but we really need your help for a couple more years. Our big pest this month? Rats! I hate rats! They burrow into irrigation canals and can ruin an earthen dam. They are able to chew off a rice crop in days and multiply so fast you can't kill them fast enough with traps. We resorted to the strongest poison we could find. I call it the "Chinese Two-step", rats eat it, walk to steps, and die. We used it for several days and the firstnight picked up hundreds of dead rats, they kept putting out the poison in different food carriers (rats are smart) and wiped them out! Now, they are good rats! Good and dead! Sorry, all you lip licking Cambodians who are wondering why you can't have them to eat. If you ate them you'd be as dead as they are. We burned the critters, and posted a sign written in "rat'. "Keep off our rice!" (Rat video)

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