Rice Rain Miracle

I feel as though we've been on the edge of a precipice; our shoes hanging three inches over a cleft of rocky, bottomless ravine. Our rice has been but a few days from extinction throughout the month of June, but at the last moment, rain comes on our main 240-hectare (600-acre) rice field. It has been dry all around us. In fact, we have one 40-acre field that is about 10 km west of us that completely died. We have replanted it.

“The Million Dollar Rain!" This (above) is a photo of our rice mill at about 5:30pm on June 11th. There are entire cities getting ready to ration water in the area. Farms on both sides of our farm have lost crops. The rainbow pictured covers the exact location of our production land. We have about 600 acres of land 5 kilometers from our rice mill, which is covered by the rainbow. It rained on our land for about two hours. Land on both sides was dry, and there was very little rain at the rice mill itself.  We spent hours warring in the ‘Spirit’ for this, and there was no rain expected in the forecast at that time. Please continue to pray for rain as this will not be enough to get us a good crop, but ‘We're Alive!!!’”It rained hard on our land right up to the property line with a rainbow covering it.

We may well raise one of the first paddy rice crops that never had flood cover. To ensure we can get to the needed rice fields to spray for killing weeds and fertilization we are building the world's first 6X6 "ricemobile" (pictured below).

Drought is all over Asia. If we were to lose this crop, it would be about a $250,000 direct loss, plus the fact that we'd have no rice to eat for the next year. With the drought, rice prices in the region are promising to be expensive, unless it starts raining real soon!

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