Barb Wire

February 1, 2008

This barb wire perimeter fence is to keep the enemy away — in this case, the water buffalo herd. The free-ranging cattle can really wreak havoc to paddy plant if, by any chance, they manage to encroach into paddy field.

They can eat* graze a whole one hectare of paddy in one night, giving farmers their worst nightmare.

I took this picture many months ago at my old folks paddy field back in Sabah on the northern part of Borneo. When I was small, I used to help my parents tend padi fields. I was once a farmer — and still is, in essence and spirit.

*The word eat is used here until I remember the correct word to describe the act of cattle eating grass.

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