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Mechanised Rice Farming in Bario

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Bario Rice Farms In The Machine Age.

The first Agricuture Revolution happened in 10,000BC, when humans began food crop cultivation, and a large part of their diet came from cultivated crops, instead of foraged food from the wild.

Since then, there have been a few ‘regional’ agriculture revolutions’ around the world, each bringing new understanding to agriculture practices and new effects to our way of life.  eg – European agriculture revolution introduced ‘crop rotation’, which changed not just agriculture, but even laws governing land and people.

Bario Kelabit Highlands Farming Mechanisation
A bufallo grazing in the fields. In the background, a tractor takes its place.
Mechanised Farming

While not considered an ‘agriculture revolution’ in itself, the mechanisation of farming has vastly increased crop yeild and food availability wherever it is applied. Surplus food have increased food security, but also reduced farm owner’s security.

Farming Transformation of Bario Rice

This study by a explores effects of the mechanised farming of rice in Bario, which just only 5 years ago, was very much a manual endeavour.

Impact of the Introduction of Mechanized Agriculture on a
Traditional Rice-Growing Community in Sarawak, Malaysia
by
Davin Marcus Raja

Click On Link To Download The PDF:
https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9238

Curators Note:
This post is part of a collection of academic research and publications done in the Kelabit Highlands. We'd like to sincerely thank the many academicians and institutions from all over the world that have come to Bario to experiment, document, and expand our understanding of the things around us.
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The Bario Rice Noodle Experiment

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Are all noodle’s the same? Now, imagine this – ‘Bario Rice Noodles’.
Bario rice purists would definitely squeal “but why?”.  “Bario rice is great as it is”, so they’d say. Read on to see what happens when a group of researchers try to process the very expensive Bario rice into Kway Teow noodles.

Definitely a good read if you love kway teow noodles, or if you love Bario rice, and better still, if you love both.

Click Link Below to Download the PDF:

www.ukm.my/jsm/pdf_files/SM-PDF-43-3-2014/03%20Rachel%20Thomas.pdf

“The Bario rice (White) used in this study is considered
as an exotic local variety of rice with a distinctive taste,
soft texture and exhibiting a mild and delicate aroma on
cooking. This rice is as an organic produce and are grown
at high altitudes (1100 m above sea level) without any use
of artificialfertilizers.”

Curator's Note:
This post is part of a collection of academic research and publications done in the Kelabit Highlands. We'd like to sincerely thank the many academicians and institutions from all over the world that have come to Bario to experiment, document, and expand our understanding of the things around us.