Cultivation Of Rice In The Philippines

Rice Cultivation in the Philippines

Emilyn C. Bao BSED-SS1, CE20

Prof. Sircio C. Chan, Capitol University

8 March, 2017

The purpose of this research is to know about the cultivation of rice in the Philippines from 1565 to 1898. The rice had many purpose in the last decades. In the Philippines, about 3200 B.C. they began the practice of rice cultivating. The ancient civilization had their ways of making rice delicacies, and also our ancestor’s fun of drinking wines made of rice. In December, after the mass, families gathered for the traditional Noche Buena, a feast that usually prepared of foods like letchon and some native (rice) delicacies like bibingka and biko. First of all the Philippines are abundant of crops in 16th century. The Philippines

The planting of rice is based on calendric time which is in the month of June to December. Farming is important in the Philippines because of that Filipinos raise rice, corn, and animals like chicken and pigs for food. Rice is one of the three crops of the world and has variety of uses. People have used rice to make snacks like suman and bibingka, main courses, and alcoholic beverages. People practice traditional farming spending most of their labor at their lands while occasionally tending to root crop cultivation. Filipinos in sixteenth century to nineteenth century are very creative and artistic they use materials such as palm leaves to creating palm leaf pouches for boiled the rice and which is known puso. It is woven from the fresh leaflets of young sprouts of coconut palm which called lukay. Rice straw also used to make paper and can also be woven into mats, hats, and other

Our ancestors have their own way of cooking the rice; they use bamboo tubes and earthen pots to cook. They also ate the rice in their own ways, they use bare hands or they will use wooden spoon. The rice is not only a food but it also can be a wine. Our ancestors are fun of drinking wines so they experiment to make a wine using the rice. Pangasi and Tapuy are the wine both made of rice which is common in provinces. In the Philippines the greatest rice producing provinces are the Pangasinan, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte. After the farmers planted the rice the farmers will be the protector of the field. They will see to it that it has enough water and the birds will not eat the rice in the field. The right to plant rice fields is a special gift given by grace, water, the sun, the gods, and the ancestors who worked the fields. The Philippines are one of the biggest exporters of rice in