Parents- Rachmat
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So, what is the solution?
I met my wife when I worked in Malaysia
I went without passport.
After we got married, we came back to the village.
So, I had to walk through jungle for two days to reach home.
When I came back, I become a farmer
Because I'm the last child, I need to take care my parents
Using my parent’s field
Opening up more fields to feed my kids and my wife
Now, I already have two kids
I turned jungle into a field
My field is very far away
And takes a long time to walk there
Sometimes it is raining, hot, and my feet get thorns in them
My wife always helps me in the field
We work together planting paddy
It saddens me when we farm because the harvest is poor
We cannot afford fertilizer and chemical sprays.
In a year, we can harvest 500 kg maximum
Last year we had crop failure
The dry season was very long
We didn’t get paddy
But we don’t have other jobs
Only farming
Now I have planted rubber trees
because I am afraid in the future we will not be allowed to do shifting cultivation
If we cannot do it anymore, what is the solution to get rice?