The thai culture

We adopt one of these methods depending on the nature and location of land, water quantity, and variety of cultivated rice. In most areas of Thailand, the transplanting system is the most common because most rice are low altitude and receive large amounts of rain water during the monsoon. With transplanting farmers prepare the fields, that is to say that they plow, fertilize and make it level at the beginning of the rainy season. The seeds are sown in the furrows. After about 20 to 30 days, the sprouts are ready to be transplanted by hand in the fields that are flooded rainwater. It takes about six months for the rice plants are fully developed and produce rice grains. By December the grain is ripe and ready to be harvested.

Many customs and practices associated with rice cultivation were transmitted to the current generation of farmers. The rain plays a very important role in the cultivation of rice and some rites organized by farmers in large provinces of Thailand confirmed. Some years the rain can come quite late or insufficient. In this case the farmers face irrigation problems to sow seeds or grow. When this problem happens, they use to hae Nang Maew or "procession pussy" to cause rain. According to popular belief this practice stems from the fact that in general cats do not like to be wet, if this happens they are very angry and meowing loudly.
The ritual involves placing a cat in a cage and paraded through the village in a procession with the villagers noisy playing drum and gong. As the procession advance, others throw water on her pussy to make highly meow. the mews the cat is considered a good sign announcing the coming of the rain. If it rains within 3 to 7 days following the same ritual is held again.

An important ceremony, the ceremony of royal plowing, is held every year to mark the official start of the planting season for rice and support the morale of farmers