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66 coop building, can't improve sales because products not strong enough (for shipping) etc. Pak Buang owns 1300M2 of sawah located in Desa Tirtonirnolo - bought this in 1974, not a warisan due to this land Pak Buang (unlike his father) considers his main occupation to be farming & says he spends only 35% of his time on kerajinan ((yet told us later he spends only 2 hrs from 7-9 AM in his sawah - perhaps including in his estimates time spent on raising chickens)) each rice season uses 6 hired laborers for 3 mornings each: 1 for garu 1 for luku 4 for planting for garu & luku, each using a sapi, pay 750 per half-day; for planting 150 per half-day he does his own weeding ((matun or watun used in this area instead of dangir - difference is that matun uses rotary weeder [gerek] in irrigated fields whereas dangir uses small bladed [[left margin]] see more complete def. in glossary 67 hand tool in dry fields) Buang buys seed from Dep. Per; uses 1R 26, 28, 32, 34 & 36, all new varieties - cost 115 per K - says plants new rather than traditional varieties because the new are more pest-resistant ("lebik tahan hamah") Buang does not participate in BIMAS or IWMAS has not yet since buying his sawah lost a crop to pests -each season pays 250 Rp to kalurahan and his fields are sprayed for pests using pump sprayer -uses papuk or a TS fertilizers; TS is applied to the land before planting - after planted a certain size applied urea uses 25 K urea per season & 5 K TS -buys his firing materials for 200 Rp per bicycle, uses 3 bicycle loads per month for himself & two friends buys clay at 150 Rp per load & the three use 1 load per month together