Electoral Games with Fertilizer
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The main street of Plumbungan village, Central Java, suddenly changed its function. Usually the road serves to connect Pati and Purwodadi regencies, but now it had become a place to dry tons of rice straw. Hundreds of farmers spread out rice stalks that were wet from soaking in muddy water for two weeks.
Parinah, a 65-year-old farmer from Pati, had deployed five of his relatives to the harvest. The owner of 1.5 hectares of rice fields moved earl
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