TEGALDLIMO – Dozens of farmers in Purworejo Hamlet, Desa Kalipait, Tegaldlimo . District, held a prayer and prayer together in the rice fields in his area yesterday (5/9). The ritual is done to ask for rain.
Even if it's simple, but the safety process which was held in the middle of the orange garden belonging to the citizen was quite solemn. Farmers bring food in the form of rice, instant noodle, and a side dish of tofu and tempeh. One of the farmers, Partum, 68, said the salvation was done to ask Allah for the blessing of rain.
Because, It's been almost the last two months in his village that there is difficulty with clean water and agricultural irrigation water. as a result, many farmers who let their farms "sleep". Miseri said the same thing, 54.
Farmers from Purworejo Hamlet, Desa Kalipait, it conveyed that since the dry season almost all farmers are struggling to find water. Even if there is, must be done by sucking water from the well, and it adds to the burden of farmers' operational costs.
"Hopefully with this safety it can rain soon,"hope". The celebration held in the rice fields was not the first time the farmers in the village had done it. A year ago, a similar event was held. Result, after salvation it rained even though it lasted only a few days.
Farmers in Purworejo Hamlet, Desa Kalipait, mostly growing oranges and secondary crops. But, There are also farmers who let their fields, for fear of losing because there is no irrigation water during the dry season. "Even though planting palawija still needs water,"explained Miseri.
If it rains it can wet the agricultural land which is now starting to dry out, even the land has a lot of nelo (cracked ground). "The name is also effort, may God accept it,"hope". (radar)
