The father of four children and thirteen grandchildren, Ketut looked the picture of health for his age. Its strong rippling muscles and fitness are the result of many years of toil away in the rice fields. Every day he starts work at 8am and returns to his humble home at 15 o'clock and hardly takes a day off, except when there are ceremonies to attend in the local village.
The rice field is 28 are (2,800 square meters) in size and hiring a tractor to Rp.10,000 per day to help cultivate rice. At different times its neighbors and grandchildren help produce about 500 kilograms of rice in a good harvest, he sells for Rp.6,500 per kg at today's prices.
This is about Rp.10 million (about USD $ 1000) per year, clearly not enough to live, so that his wife product of coconut oil that it sells on the market local and they also breed pigs and grow different kinds of fruits in their backyard.
There may be very difficult because rice cultivation Ketut has regularly problems with pests destroying his crops. When money is hard to find, the village community meets and help in this wonderful Balinese way.
Visit Ketut and his wife in their simple house, I could see they were very happy and satisfied with life, always smiling and laughing and happy to share their hard-earned rice and food with me. They did not want for anything more as they said to me, they had everything - family, faith, safety and the good feeling everyday connection to and receive the blessings of the gods
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