they earned around 7 sagh and worked from 5 or 6 in the morning till 6 in the afternoon that was after or before the revolution? after the revolution..we are talking around 1956 here when things turned for the better they earned around 10 sagh and then to 15 until they reach 25 piasters when it reached 30 piasters, the cotton was banned from our area is it better that the cotton was banned? well when we stopped planting the land would no longer take the seeds of cotton anymore so they just banned it and they are now planting cotton at al wadi el gedeed and beheira, but here in bahary no one is planting cotton anymore because there is no one to collect it even if you find collectors they are extremely slow back in the days they were very efficient and fast they were used to that, but that is not the case anymore the peasants today would come by at 10 and tell you we have to go home but back then working hours were from 5 to 6 but today no one accepts to come and stay up to do this work if you look around, there is no one are they still studying? thats why zakarya cant come?..no he is coming ack some of them are atudying and coming back..those have finished college everyone is busy, but i have not seen sheikh zakaria ok let us retry reading the page it's the same yes but we might find some diffrent details 