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 The staple food of Sri Lankan is rice. There fore paddy is cultivated during yala and maha season. Farmers have to work very hard to get a good harvest.
                         First water is dive red in to the field to soak in well. After that the field is filled and ploughed. Long a go buffaloes were used for this purpose but today more people use tractors. Because it is quicker and cheaper after the field is ploughed rides are made seed paddy is put in to the sacks and soak them from the water. After that it is sown in the field some times the seed is sown in a nursery and then plant in the field. The farmers be live it gave a good harvest. During the season it is looked after very carefully weedicides and insecticides are sprayed the field has to be
 Manure too.
           After some time sheaves of paddy appear. Then the field has to be protected from birds. So a scare crow is put in the middle of the field to frighten the farmers the birds. After some time the farmers ripens and it is the time to get harvest season. The farmer comes to the field with his friends and relations to hares it they harvest the paddy with sickles.
           The men keep sheaves on the ridges and the women take them to the threshing floor. This is the opened space. It is cleaned and prepared for threshing the paddy is heaped in the threshing floor and it is threshed by a machine. Long a go this was done by using buffaloes after the paddy is threshed it has to be winnowed to remove the chaff from the grain. Then it is measured put it in to sacks and taken home the straw is bundled and sold but it doesn’t happen very often we can see straw thatched house this is how paddy is cultivated in sir lanka. 
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