A pond field.
Plural: papayaw Many fields.
A pond field is a basin attached to a slope and, in Batad, supported by a stone retaining wall. The basin consists of a hard-packed basin floor, pānad, with a bund, banong, supported on the outside by a stone-wall crown, tappeng, and on the inside by an undersurface of hard-packed soil, tapig, with an outer surface of sealing mud plaster, pi'pi', which extends up over the lip to join the stone-wall crown. Contained within the basin is a growing medium, lūyo', of clay, black earth and decayed vegetable matter, flooded with water. A pond field is a major source of both staple and side-dish foods. Rice, pāguy, is a primary staple crop and, in Batad, is grown twice a year. It is intercropped in inundated fields with taro, lā'at, the rootstalk of which is used both as a staple, the plant stalk and leaves as a side dish. Vegetable mounds, pen'ol, are piled along the dikes and in these are grown Chinese cabbage, pitsay; garlic, amput; mustard, lakutta; onion, danggu; staked hyacinth bean, ītab; and rice bean, tukāyan. Along the dikes, in dike soil, are grown lima bean, pa'weng; mung bean, balātung; and winged bean, bullīgan. In dry pond fields are grown numerous varieties of beans, cowpea, agwat, onion, sesame, longeh, and squash, kalubāha. A pond field is also a primary source of protein-rich food: mudfish, bolog, small catfish, tuyu, as well as various kinds of edible invertebrates, gīnga 1, such as beetles, bugs, clams, insect larva, mole crickets, snails and tadpoles.
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