Waves coming almost every minute and scorching sun did not prevent Nyoman Geret, 60 years. Seaweed farmers on the beach Ungasan, Kuta, Badung, it collects seaweed while soaking up the stomach.
She brought a scoop shirtless, fishing gear, to solicit grass piecemeal. Each time the ladle was half full, he would take her to the beach. Father of two children that gathered little by little.
Very scorching sun at about 2 that afternoon. According to Yahoo Weather to 34 degrees Celsius. Geret not care. He continued to solicit seaweed, the main source of livelihood, is.
Geret and other seaweed farmers used to work in the morning to check out the sea grass they planted. For example, cleaning it from trash or vermin. After that, during the day, starting at about 2 to 5 pm, they will look for seaweed that regardless of the binder.
Is only about 10 meters from where Geret collect seaweed, dozens of foreign tourists were sunbathing and swimming in the pool. When foreign tourists are enjoying the blue Pacific Ocean and the tropical sun, Geret it must face the harsh reality, the amount of harvest is declining.
The rainy season in Bali between November and April. In these months, every year, the number will be reduced harvest seaweed. "Sea water is more turbid and dirty. Seaweed is so easily damaged, "said Geret.
Seaweed damaged visible from the color that is not too green, yellow, and rather dull. Because of the strong currents after the rain, according to Geret, seaweed also easier to fall so that the mass is reduced to half or a third the size of normal. "If the ugly seaweed also can not be sold," added Geret.
According Geret, except in the rainy season, he could get 1,000 kg of seaweed 5 plots she is doing. However, when the rainy season arrives, he can only get 200 pounds, 20 percent of the harvest normally.
Another farmer, Made Karna, 58, also experienced the same thing. Four months, the number of harvest declines. The numbers are exactly what experienced Geret. Than usual harvest up to 1,000 kg of five plots (no exact size), now he's just dapata 200 kg. "It was already the most," he said.
Total harvest is a seaweed that is dry, not wet seaweed freshly harvested. Each kg of dried seaweed, dried between 3-4 days after, sold at Rp 8,600. They used to harvest twice every 45 days.
With a reduced harvest in the rainy season, farmers' income was reduced. Geret and Karna said that currently their income from the sale of seaweed only about Rp 1 million per month. Whereas on a normal day around Rp 3 million.
Therefore, they should find another job. Karna, for example, is sometimes also a construction worker or work in hotels or villas in the surrounding area. The Geret claimed nyambi as one of the security officers villa in Ungasan. "If it does not work in other places, where enough revenue to our daily life," said Karna.
Ungasan beach on the southern tip of Bali is one of the centers of seaweed farming in Bali than in Nusa Penida and the surrounding region. According to Karna there are about 5 groups of seaweed farmers in the region with a number of members of the group between 20-30 people.
They farmed seaweed in the open ocean. There is no tenure system because each farmer could mengapling their own land. Each one seaweed growing season is 45 days to harvest up to 2 times.
When the harvest time has not yet come, they will look for seaweed that apart from the bonds in which they are planted sea grass. It was also done during the Geret and Karna. They're looking for the rest of the harvest is decreasing. From the remains that they are now the source of income.
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