"TOBACCO FARMING"

    "Farming" one of the most noble occupation in the world. We all know that with out farmers we can not eat fresh vegetables, rice, corn, fruits.....etc.. I am proud that my parents are one of them.
     One of the most unforgettable experience that I remember was happened in my childhood. That time my father planted tobacco.

        For me tobacco is one of the most hardest crop to raise. By the time that the leaves of the tobacco is ripen. Our parents woke up at dawn together with our neighbors to harvest the ripen leaves. After few hours we need also to wake up to deliver the bread or "pandesal" together with the coffee in the farm in order for them to eat their breakfast. By 9 A.M. we need to go home together with the harvested leaves of tobacco because the temperature in the farm is becoming hotter.
        At home we arranged the leaves of the tobacco using pointed stick of bamboo.

                                                                               

         After arranging we cook this tobacco leaves using huge customized cooker in ilokano we called it "pugon". It is 3 storey high in height and it is wide as the size of typical masters bedroom.

         
           After 4 to 5 days of cooking we then bundle it and ready for selling.            

                                                                             
           After a long processes, labor and hard work  it worth it. And that's the one of the most unforgettable experience that I've ever had when I was a child.