The day
begins with the morning walk towards the Wengkhar Lhakhang following the
cemented footpath and across the blacktop road. As she wanders around, she could
grasp the morning freshness and perceive the beautiful scenery of Wengkhar
valley where one fills the heart with happiness with greenery surrounding. One
could spot homely village life; people busy like bees in the field. One could
notice men fencing, women weeding in the maize field and few in the vegetable
garden as it’s the routine for them to work in the early morning hours before
sunshine. Those morning walks were striking moments for her where she could
spot and is familiar with the activities of the people nearby.
As soon as
she is back from the morning walk then she has to rush for her duty. Being
agriculturist working in a research Centre, it is her responsibility to visit
and monitor research field on daily basis. Every day is a challenging day as
one has to work under scorching sun with sweats all over the body but worth learning
if we take on the other way as we can handle with daily arousal of pest and overcome the problems in the field. Physical effort has
to be applied and hard work is must in order to reap what you sow.
Summer is the
season for harvesting and paddy transplantation in the east and the busiest one
where she is engaged in harvesting of different varieties of Apricot, Plum,
Peaches and followed by Pear harvest and has to do laboratory fruit analysis to compare and find out superior quality. She never misses sensory
evaluation of those summer fruits.
With regard
to vegetables, it is fruiting season for cucurbits and solanaceous family like
Pumpkin, summer squash, Tomatoes etc. She has to harvest summer squash on alternate
days and evaluate it as immature squash are good for cooking. Most motivating
part of her work in vegetables is that she could conduct research trial, study
the phenotypical characters of the vegetables and could compare different varieties
of the specific vegetable.
She
considers practical learning as the best as she could cope up with the
cultivation practices of crops and even get opportunity to experience the
hardships faced by the farmers. After a tiring field work one can sleep with
full satisfaction as ones hard work will be rewarded.
Those summer
days let her gain skills in cultivation of crops and the techniques to overcome
the hindrances in management of the crops.
