EARLY HARVEST PADI STRANDED FLOOD

Petani encourages shelves containing rice crops harvested by flooding bandang in Besuki rice fields, Tulungagung, East Java, Tuesday (17/10). Flood bandang as a result of local river embankment makes dozens of hectares of rice fields containing adult rice plants in the area soaked up to a depth of 60 centimeters and forced farmers to do early harvest because it is threatened by puso. ANTARA PHOTO/Destyan Sujarwoko/ama/17