PEATLAND is not compatible with paddy cultivation. Although the peat is thin, only several meters, such land is unfit for planting. Suriato and other Tumbang Mangkutub hamlet residents on the bank of Kapuas River once tried to grow paddy, but most of them failed.

Only three of 35 families succeeded. It was also owing to their individual calculations of the soil that could be grown with crops. First there are what they call embankments and luau