Baras Brunei: rice huts

Showing posts with label rice huts. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The many faces of Wasan padi field "housing" scheme

The Classical

The Canadian

House of blues

The minimalist

Abandoned project

Serving rice since 2006

This blog is created for the purposes of documenting the events and inner workings of our small-medium rice farm and the surrounding farming community for later perusal or reference.

What started out as a 'hobby-ish' subsistence rice farming, our farm is now cultivating varieties of rice that yield faster and better than traditional local grain to accommodate some of the constantly increasing demand for fresh 'organic' rice. Our mission is also in line with His Majesty the Sultan of Brunei's call for self-sufficiency of rice production.

Baras is Bruneian slang for Beras (Bahasa Melayu) which means uncooked rice.

"...If a rice producing country that already has capability to achieve 70% of its domestic rice requirement is still striving to formulate policies to achieve 100% self-sufficiency, why is it that we, only achieving at 3.12% not exerting enough effort to increase our national rice production? If I may recall, I have been emphasizing on this matter for the past years. It is most appropriate now that we should have our own strategic plan and national agriculture policy, amongst other things, that will guarantee national food security as one of its key strategies..."

Titah - Royal Address by His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, Sultan andYang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam in conjunction with His Majesty's 62nd Birthday on 15 July 2008