Farming

00:00:01si' breu yeh nsúek ménoot
She has asked me to speak again

00:00:04papah lún taam, lún séeh
about how we, the interior people

00:00:06lún Sa'ban, lún Kelabit, lún Bawang
the Sa'ban, Kelabit and Lun Bawang

00:00:11aroo' mah lah
make farms

00:00:11aroo' mah kaap padi
farm to get paddy

00:00:13kai taam aroo' mah
if we farm

00:00:15loe'... weh na'an yeh
there are many... two ways to do it

00:00:17mah wan tana' atau mah érang
farms on dry land, or hill farming

00:00:20mah bihii', nah hmeu Sa'ban
and wet paddy farming, as we call it in Sa'ban

00:00:23kai arai aroo' mah érang
if you do hill farming

00:00:26pu'uen-pu'uen arai lemdiek
first of all, you slash the undergrowth

00:00:29pi arai lemdiek nah
after slashing the undergrowth

00:00:31dei arai mai lesel yeh
then you cut down small trees

00:00:34pi nai, dei temaraa' yeh
after that, you cut the big trees

00:00:37pi nah arai ntoo' la'iin
after that you cut the branches

00:00:41sukup yeh mataai
when it's dead enough

00:00:43sukup yeh praang
when it's dry enough

00:00:44kai naan lecéen
if there is a dry period

00:00:45dei lún ntueng yeh
then people burn

00:00:47pi lún ntueng
after burning

00:00:49dei deh mai ngkuep
they go and collect the branches

00:00:52pi ngkuep
after collecting the branches

00:00:53dei deh ntueng sabuun
they burn them on a bonfire

00:00:55pi ntueng sabuun
after the bonfire

00:00:57dei lún mo'oen
then people dibble

00:00:58pi mo'oen nah
after dibbling

00:01:00dei deh mai lamuu' breu
then they go and weed again

00:01:04lamuu' deu
weed the grass

00:01:05pi deh lamuu' deu nah tau
after weeding the grass

00:01:07mraal padi tau
when the paddy is bigger

00:01:09éraat wei' padi tau
and the paddy fruit begins to show

00:01:10nah lún mroau
then people go and scare away the birds

00:01:11jaga' piriet
they watch for sparrows

00:01:13jaga' manook
watch for birds

00:01:14am mai kasau mah
and stop them from disturbing the farm

00:01:16pi nah dei tah lún panai
after that people harvest

00:01:18pi lem panai
after harvesting

00:01:20deh hngoot padi mai lem paau
they store the paddy in the rice hut

00:01:21an deh nnéek yeh lem paau yaai
and thresh it in the rice hut

00:01:23pi tau si' nah súel alaak padi
and then afterwards women get the paddy

00:01:26deh ngijin padi tau
and when they put it through the paddy machine

00:01:27jadi' brée nyeh
it becomes rice

00:01:28nah lem ayoo' hnah
so that is that one

00:01:30mah bihii' ai
as for wet farms

00:01:33mah bihii' perlu arai kaap tana' nok wei' pataal
wet farming requires one to look for land that is very flat

00:01:40naan aroo' bihii'
where you can make a wet farm

00:01:41deh perlu naan pei' mai lem bihii' ai breu
you need to have water in wet paddy fields as well

00:01:44kai pei' am wei' mai lem bihii' ai
if you can't get water into the wet paddy farm

00:01:47memang bihii' ai la' mapat
the wet farm will get overgrown

00:01:48tana' ai pun hra to'oh
if the land is very hard

00:01:51susah arai ngkoe padi lem yeh
it's difficult for you to plant the paddy in it

00:01:54ko' ddúet cara nok ina dei tah yeh
then you do the same as before

00:01:56pi nah tau sieng yeh waan wei'
afterwards when it has fruit

00:02:02arai mroau yeh
you scare birds

00:02:03pi tau panai yeh tau
then you harvest

00:02:04ko' ddúet cara mah wan érang ina dei
the same as with hill farming

00:02:06dei yeh pahaat tah yeh
so it's the same

00:02:07tapi cara mah wan tana' nai
but hill farming

00:02:11kira ncéet yeh ciek
it's a harder job

00:02:13loe' kerja yeh éraat ngaan mah lem bihii'
more work than wet paddy farming

00:02:15pat nah dúeng
so that's the end