Producing White-Collar Farmers
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
THE sky is still dark when a bunch of young men in work clothes head for the garden. A garden party in the morning? No. Despite occasional laughter and jokes, the youths are busy planting vegetables, cultivating rubber seedlings and hoeing the soil. Obviously they are not having a picnic.
They are the students of the State Development Agricultural School (SPPN), Sembawa, some 30 kilometers from Palembang. They are learning to become farmers. Eac
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