Day 1: Harvesting maize crops at the farm

Good morning hivans, how are you all doing today? Yesterday was a work full day for me, I was at the farm with my boss and it was such a good journey. We started our journey from Ilorin down to Ojukwu, that's a town after Offa. It was quite a long journey on its own as we spent about 3hours on the way with no stopping drive. I haven't had such an experience with farming and yesterday was my first time going faraway to do some harvesting.

My boss already called his farm supervisor before we got there to start with the labourers so we could save time. We met them doing the job already like it's shown in the image above. They had started harvesting and we met them on it. Right before we got there, we had to park out car and trek a long distance before getting to the farm. It took us about 40mins to get to the farm, I didn't know it so quickly until my legs started telling me. Farming is not an easy task and I know this already.

We hired 10 labourers to make the work faster and I helped a little too with getting the maize. Each labourer is to get her portion separately from others before we started measuring with sacks to determine their pay. They are so good at their jobs and their physical strength is high, Even though they are all women doing the jobs.

That's one of my bosses over there, he's the owner of the farm and the person I went with. He made enough plans for this year crops and harvest but he's quite disappointed with what he saw because there were too much rainfalls for the maize plants and it got a side effect on them which was not so good for him as the farm owner. I understand his feelings being that he spent so much on his farm and the rain destroyed many things.

My boss is quite good with speaking the labourers local dialer and his communication with then was so easy. I was only on the watch since I couldn't speak their language, but I was curious to learn from them. My only way of communicating with the labourers was speaking English and only few of them could respond. At times, one needs to understand that communication barriers is painful when you have an important information to pass. It feels good to be among them and learn how they do things but mere looking without being able to say anything looked boring.

Here they are done with harvesting the maize and we started with measurements. We are to do the measurements ourselves while they told us where the portion they cultivated was.

That's my second boss in the brown t-shirt with the supervisor measuring the crops picked by one of the labourers. We all had one or two things to do. We continued until we got to the end of it. Meanwhile, each labourer is paid per sack bag gotten. A bag was #500 which could be equivalent to about 3.5 hive per bag or more. Some labourers got 5 bags while some got 4, some 6 and more.

We got the final collation of the crops and it was a hell of work but interesting. I found myself understanding their language a bit and I became different. I know what a maize is called in the language and I know few other things. We'll start the separation process tomorrow and I guess that's not going to be much work like we did yesterday.
Farming stressful but sweet and encouraging. We learn the more we go deep into it and it's a great source of income
In just a matter of few days, I have learnt some things I was ignorant of and it has a great help for me while studying agricultural science as a course in school

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