 ...of the house is removed. And then they have taken just only the dead person yesterday afternoon, so my house is not set. Anyway this is a native house, only the roof is galvanized iron. It is not Pugun, so welcome and good day. So, before we proceed, I introduce the first farmer, the lady farmer, and now we have the member of the Barangay Council. Kagawa the Noel Tulipa. He is the number one Barangay Council. So, she's a member of the council. That is why we readily availed of their sheets from the Barangay Hall. I think you can start your questions already. He is also, he has also a farm below. They are employed in other agencies, but they have also a farm to till during weekends, during holidays. I'm interested in these earthworms. I, because for us, we like earthworms because they break up the soil, but it's a patty system. Is that, is that, I'm interested in what the problem is with them. Are they ruining the hardfam? I don't know. So, we have a problem with the earthworms. We have to give them to the earthworms because they break up the soil. I'll kill you, Pak. I don't know what's going on. The earthworm is very good because they are cultivative. It's used for fertilizer, but those are the advantages. But there are also these advantages. They will make holes in the rice field, and then the water will go to there, and there is where the slide will come up. If there are more water that will push through with the holes they are making, the rice paddies will be slide down. So, are they introduced like they're not native? If it's there on the fields that those are, nobody introduced that earthworm, it is in the rice paddies itself. We saw a lot of lodging, and we're curious how the plants are covered from the lodging. Are they pretty resistant to that? Lodging houses. Yung pang palay natin nakalodge pa na nakatapak. So, yung po ba ay babangunulay? Well, that depends because if the typhoon will not follow, then at least they will slowly come out or the farmers will help them let it stand. They will take the stick because that is a pest to the farmer because they have a small harvest. But as is for the matured ones, they will get it, but for the young ones, they will help it stand or if it cannot stand. Those are losses of farmers because the typhoon came ahead before the harvesting season. And it was even very strong. I think you have seen that rice fields there. Yung po ba ay dahil sa tubeng o dahil po sa hanging? Dahil sa hanging. Very strong. Sir, the height, the height or the length of the soil, very tall. That's the one that's at the bottom. I'm scared. If you have a... If you have a still one, you can ask and I will... How many hours does it take to harvest one of the smaller... I don't know. The size of the rice paddies, the number of harvesters depends on the size of the paddies. There are farmers who can bundle 20 to 30 bundles a day like this. And there are those who can bundle 10 to 15 like this. So here, instead of kilogram, bundles, their unit of measure is bundles. How many bundles in one harvest? Nobody... You can't come. There was one farmer who scheduled the harvesting now but he was not sure if it will still rain today. That is why he did not continue to harvest. So that you can see how they bundle or they harvest. Because automatically they harvest with the flood leaf and then automatically the hands is separating the flood leaf from the rice panikel. So after which they just remove all the flood leaf and then it is just again arranged. So they are used to that. They are fast in getting. That is aglutinous rice that is newly harvested. And this is another variety. Raymond mentioned about bundling. So if you have a bigger bundle that's for seed, then a smaller bundle for grain. So is that the size, the big one? Size for the seed bundle? Times two. That one will be the size of about four to five kilos. So it's still a bigger bundle? It will be like this. It will be combined. But the other one is... The other one, the seedling they will sow in the rice field is they select it. This one is not selected because this is only for consumption. I would like to ask about rice fertilization here. Pagano pa yung nakaba? What's your question? I would like to ask about rice fertilizer. Nagalagay po kaya ng pataba? No, sir. At the grasses, those are the grasses we remove from the rice paddies. We put it there in the rice fields. So that is what we use for fertilizers. Because we only plant once a year. So we do not use fertilizers. The fertilizer we are using are the grasses we remove from the rice, or the rice straw we put it there in the rice field. And the average of rice growth activity? Average time. Uh, yield? Ya. Gano po ang anin yan na nakapuhon do sa pating nyo ng pita? Up, bundle? Ya. Pa na timahestimity? Ilang bundle po? Do sa yun na harvest ninyo? Oh, that depends. Because here it is not by hectare. It is by rice paddies, by small parts. So, for example, like this, that is one partial, one piece. Ilang po ang bundle ang nakapuhon? That depends. It depends. For this one, around three or four bundles. Because it is very small, eh. No, not exactly 45 kilos. Achiman ohay, bundle. Umay man, ohay. 1 kilo, 1 kilo. Ah, 2.5, ohay. So, one bundle here. If the grains are old food, it will go to loyal, but if the grains are not so good, it will take 2.5. 2.5 per bundle. The number of bundles that they harvest times 2.5 kilos per bundle. That is the number of kilos. Because they are not all the same. It's farmer have their own area, size. What percent of the rice harvest depends up as rice that is eaten and rice that is turned into wine or rice that was to break down then? What percent is eaten and what percent is turned into wine? Depends also on the farmer. If he likes to grow all glutinous rice, then he can. If he is to that farmer who usually like to have wine during harvest or during any occasion, he may plant more glutinous rice like that. That is why this farmer have that glutinous rice. He planted more like this because they have more occasions on the council, so they have something to do. Because you heard about rituals today, the rice wine is a very important part of most of those rituals. Yes. But if we consume the rice, we buy it from the commercial rice that we have already consumed our glutinous rice. So at first, their harvest, they will consume it and when there is no rice, they will just buy it in a commercial store. So their harvest is not enough to sustain their grain. Because we only plant once a year. If we plant two or three crops a year, maybe that's enough for us farmers. But then only once a year because of the climate. Do you? Yes. What are the other major sources of income for the community? Aside from palais, we have vegetables. We plant vegetables. We plant sometimes those are vacant areas. We plant kamutis, sweet potatoes. Peanut, or corn, or gabi. For those vacant areas that are not planted with rice, ay palais. So most is still agriculture so there's not much income from other sources? Sure. And then kuyya is a barangay official. So aside from rice, kumpukuhati po kayo dahil ang pagkakitaan? Yes. Yes, sometimes other sources of income, we whip. We do the weaving like this. This one. I make this. I made it myself. So this is their native clothes here? Yes. And then aside from that they have carvings. Bagawa is carving. Wood carving. So tourism, is that a big part of the economy? Like for the weaving? Yes. It is even very strong. If during Feistas, we sell this in the market like this is, before it is only 150 but now it is 250 per blouse. And this one is 500 per tapis. This one. This is very easy to whip only what is hard is this one, making of the design. And then this one. But weaving here is very easy because there are no design. That depends. If you do it at contraction, so I will add their sharing. Actually during the rice farming cycle when they have a small size of rice field it was transplanted. Of course, you have to wait again. So the women are engaged in weaving they go somewhere else to earn per day basis. Any work in the somewhere maybe outside the barangay outside Banawi. Then the men also went to it depends on their skill. If they are carpenter carpenter then they go somewhere else to earn because they have nothing to work in the field. They will again wait until their labor is needed in the field. So the men after preparation they already go in sick or other job like carpentry or working during our irrigation or reprapping any kind of work for the men. So they might go outside Banawi those who can do over work for the men. So they will again return when the harvesting is near because they are the ones to haul the bundles of palay. So after harvest again they go again to look for job same. So actually they are not concentrated under rice field. They have of farm work like for the women. They weave during of season while waiting for the rice field to be weeded again refine work in somewhere else then they return again when weeds are growing or the rice or rice plants. So they have to weave again after weeding again while waiting for the harvest they continue looking for work so that they will augment their income or they might go to engage in gardening somewhere so that they will augment their family income. That is how they our number one challenge is our number one challenge is those abundant rice fields without water. And those earthworms that are teras those are challenges to clean the rice fields then they have festa on the rice plants. Sana the government will help the farmers so that they will rebuild the dikes and then the water to go to the rice fields. So at least we got a lesser problem. I hope so. Some days the government will see our problems. How does the market works in here? Do you sell individually or do you have a farmer's co-op to sell? Do you sell bundle or milled rice? Actually we have one cooperative down. We will visit by and by. This barangay as no member I there is no farmer from here who happen to be a member of that cooperative. It is one barangay who raises the heirloom rice because these are not the exportable varieties. We saw a while ago in the the picture the presentation on the red rice the aromatic heirloom rice that is being exported to the USA. It is planted in one or three barangays on that side but it is very far. They have already finished their harvesting because they are earlier than this barangay. So they began June and finished their harvesting July. Next time around when you will be here when you are here earlier than June or July they are harvesting time there. So they are the ones who are members of that cooperative because of their heirloom rice that they raise. They pledge only they are not compelled to put that quota. It depends on them on how many kilos do they pledge to come up with the number of kilos to be exported. So those are bigger ones in aromatic more aromatic. Maybe we can see by and by because this time the farmers there from that two barangays are already mailing for quality control. Before during our days our parents times built but for the younger generation now it is very difficult because you know how much you train them to go. Maybe those good children they are trained to help their parents but that depends because now they have many invention like the computer to go but some of the children are helping our children are helping but before we are compelled to obey our parents but now time changes children and so change but at least we have the nerve to control our children to train to help us once in a while. I had a similar question what percent of the children in this barangay stay in bogos or what percent go to other cities? That depends because if they like to go they do not have work here they will go to other places to find work or our children who are studying we do not have college here they go to other places to for further studies Is it more than half the leave or less than half? More or less than half? I have a question If you need support of the government it is said that it will help you to respond We have two government agencies Department of Tourism At the Department of Tourism we will give to them Department of Tourism So I am asking to say that they need support from the government and they are to units of the government to separate Department of Tourism Department of Tourism so we use that Department of Tourism directly Department of Tourism Department of Tourism Department of Tourism Department of Tourism I have a very good question sir but then sometimes well they help us but it is not enough For example the rebuilding of the diet Repropping of the rice Repropping of the rice Repropping of the rice Oh, it is not enough oh, it is not enough Oh, it is not enough Oh, it is not enough Oh, it is not enough So really it has been aiming the rice services not on the production or farming just the rice services So maybe we can start showing them how we do the for the we will expound that question We have a what we call a special agency the Ifugao Heritage Cultural Heritage Office at Lagawi based at Lagawi They are the ones consolidating help from assistance from other agencies and then they bring the improvement here that is reprapping of eroded rice fields but only a few they prioritize the farmers whose rice fields can be seen in the the tourist ispat so not all of them benefit it is only and we have also availed from the we have a Ambangaldam Microdam here in Lagawi the central capital of Ifugao they have a banawi has a share but I think it is not enough also so one farmer benefited but it is that barangay view point they rehabilitated the abandoned area there which was all these slides went there now they have already planted it we have assistance from the government but it is barely enough to cover all the farmers who need the assistance and then from the department of agriculture through the municipal agriculture office we also make proposals from the department of agriculture regional office for those mechanical equipment for micro tillers for cost harvest facilities like the milling facility and other irrigation but not all areas here in banawi again is being assisted because the fund is limited 100 you said you don't use fertilizer so is that because there is no supply or you don't want to use fertilizer that is the traditional way of since it is once a year that they plant I think all the grasses all the rice stubbles that they clean they put them there to be decayed and then that is enough to sustain the production for one year and they are not sold to using commercial fertilizer because this traditional not so receptive to commercial fertilizer and then the law of water from the top the water is flowing downward