This rocky road is connected to the National road and it leads and straight up to Barangay Patag and Sitio Lapad. This road is located at the Middle of the rice field because both side of the place is contains lots of rice paddies. Electricities and cable wires also installed here and it runs and connected in the Substation far enough from the place. This rocky barangay road is also a short cut going to Barangay Punta Silum and Zone 18 Barangay Poblacion Manticao. Different kinds of vehicles like trucks always passing by here and aside of that, Private cars, Motorcycles, Tricycles can also accessible and pass here.
This field contains almost 60 rice paddies and some of the place are not yet planted with rice plants. Rice farmers are still cleaning and plowing the place and filled with lots of water from the irrigations. There are some parts of the paddies were lots of young rice plants takes place and grows there for a few days before replanting it to the field. Young plants are properly tied in bundle before putting it in the muddy place with lots of water. It placed very carefully and well organized so that it can easily replanted for the next day.
Farmers used mud to subdivided the place, they get some mud and properly placed and piled like a wall so they can be also walk at the piled mud when it dries. The water filled in this wide areas is came from the river here in Manticao and using the irrigation methods, it can easily filled lots of water here because of the water channels and concrete canals were the water flows out.
This long structure of concrete canal is served as an irrigation system of the rice filed. There are lots of water will flowed here everytime when they are going to plant rice plants. The water travels a long way and it surpasses few Zones of Barangay Poblacion. This water irrigations is very important and helpful to all rice farmers here in Manticao and they can do their job very easily.
Some of the rice paddies are already filled with plants and it is nearly produced lots of rice grains. Rice farmers always checked those paddies to see if there are birds or any harmful animals hiding on the place. Some of the paddies are not yet fully plowed and the rice stalks are not yet removed in the paddy. A great and challenging job is very important here in the Field.
Approximately there are almost 24 hectares of land occupied in the Rice field and some parts of the place are owned by Private School which support rice to all students who lives in dormitories inside of the campus. The rest of the place is owned by the Government that supports lots of rice, in fact the farmers have already an associations. Manticao rice field is also known as rice bowl because of abundant of rice that supports the Municipal Economy. Thank you for visiting my post, have a nice day everyone.
