@Django posted:My grandparents owned three acres of rice land ,during my teenage years growing up there helped out planting and cutting rice.
My grandmother got one acre of land at one of the first Land Settlement Schemes for Indian Indentured Laborers established in the late 1800's on the West Coast Demerara. Later years they purchased two of their neighbors land.
Did u cut a “taas” or 1/2”taas”
i have no idea wht the measurement of a tass was but my dad had a long bamboo stick that he called a rod.. n he used this “rod” to measure a taas. I dont know how many rods for a taas .
some old ladies used to cut rice.. till they could hardly stand up.. too much back pain .some kids too 1/4-1/2 taas.
sometimes they did bartering so as not to pay laborers to cut the rice. Family “A” cut for family “B” n vice versa