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Planting Taro |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Anders Ryman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 254 Words, 1,392 Characters |
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One day I accompany Sali, a son of Bong, the former chief of Bunlap, to his plantations in the interior. We follow a path through the woods behind the village. Sali is a powe...
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...bottom of each of them, the top of the tuber remains. Sali takes care of the planting. With a digging stick of hard, heavy wood he makes a hole in the ground, places one of the stalks in it, and fills it up with packed earth. Then he continues in the same way with the rest of the stalks. In seven months, new taro tubers, big enough to harvest, will have grown out of the planted stalks.
----A.R.
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