I can definitely understand the hazards of grains in the road, though I might have a slightly different take on it... I remember riding my motorcycle in an area near a grain elevator and fortunately being nervous enough about a white area on the road ahead to slow WAY down... Turns out it was the first sharp corner leaving the elevator, and the excess grain heaped on trucks would spill over.... Result was a 6" deep drift of raw soybeans covering the road Soybeans are EVIL to ride on... Not only are they nice round balls - think ~1/4" ball bearings, but under pressure they smash and turn into oily paste (mostly soybean oil....) Even paddle-walking, I barely kept the bike up - and then had to stop at the next opportunity to dump the beans out of my boots....
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snaker wrote:ex-Gooserider wrote:Stopping the film, looks like full ears, couldn't tell for sure if they had been husked or not. I don't know just why they are spread out on the road like that, but I'd guess they are drying the ears in preparation for shelling the kernels off, and presumably grinding them into corn meal... Don't ask me why they don't just import corn meal pre-ground, as I'd have thought it would be less expensive than to pay for shipping the cobs, that at least in the US would be discarded....
VN imports maize to produce animal food (e.g pig, cow, poultry) not human food We eat rice as many other Asian countries. The reason of importing that large amount is that US (and some other countries in South America) can plant corn with an extremely high productivity (maybe 6 times higher than VN). So although having to pay high cost for importing, corn from US is still a half cheaper than the one planted in VN. It also has better quality. Anyway it is ridiculous that a country with 70% labor working in agriculture has to import grain from a country with less than 1% labor working in agriculture, isn't it?
In my province. local farmers plant corn along rivers. They have a bad habit to dry corn (including rice, peanut) by spreading them along the roads. Now it is not the season of corn so we only see a few. In 2-3 coming weeks, it will be a season of rice, rice and its straw will fill almost the roads. Bikes (and also my powerchair ) have to move in the middle of the roads, very closely mad trucks. That's really dangerous. Some deaths happened because of spreading grain along roads but local farmers still do it year by year.
Car price in VN is too expensive while life is low, so the rate cars/population is very low (about 1/10 families owns a car). Although the price already dropped a half comparing the past 3-4 years but it is still about 2 times more expensive than in other neighbor ASEAN countries. And by some reasons the quality of cars made in VN is bad. People always prefer imported cars, especially US brands. We had hopped after TTP, many more cars would be imported and available for reasonable prices but that Trump ruined everything